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Hanover Square Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	Horseheads, New York
Coordinates	42°10′3″N 76°49′16″W / 42.16750°N 76.82111°W / 42.16750; -76.82111
Built	1862
Architect	Multiple
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Other, Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	82001094
Added to NRHP	October 29, 1982

The Hanover Square Historic District is a downtown business district in Horseheads, New York. Most of the buildings in the district were built between 1862 and 1882 in the Romanesque Revival style. The homogeneity of the district is owed to the fact that a fire levelled the town in 1862, allowing for redevelopment in this manner. The brick buildings, with their decorative corbelling, are remarkably intact.

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

History

There was a small village built around a large rock deposited by a glacier by the time General John Sullivan came to the area during the Sullivan Expedition. The Town of Horseheads grew from this small settlement around the rock, into a larger town. Later expansions away from the square produced the 1855 Extension Historic District.

Gallery

• Decorative corbelling on a building in the district
• Rock deposited by glaciers in the center of the square

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. ^ Janette Johnstone (August 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination:Hanover Square Historic District". Retrieved September 9, 2008. and Accompanying 9 photos, from 1981 Archived March 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

Media related to Hanover Square Historic District (Horseheads, New York) at Wikimedia Commons

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