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Title
Garfield Historic District: National Register of Historic Places Application
Subject
Applicable Criteria: EVENT
Architectural Styles: Colonial Revival, Other
Architects: Bonsack and Pearce, Incorporated
Builders: Miller, J. J., Greer, A.W.
Areas Of Significance: BLACK
Periods Of Significance: 1908 AD - 1968 AD
Resource Type: District
Architectural Styles: Colonial Revival, Other
Architects: Bonsack and Pearce, Incorporated
Builders: Miller, J. J., Greer, A.W.
Areas Of Significance: BLACK
Periods Of Significance: 1908 AD - 1968 AD
Resource Type: District
Description
Address(es): 914-916, 915 and 921 Garfield Street
Year listed: 2017
Description: The Garfield Historic District contains the most cohesive, intact collection of African American resources in the community. The district encompasses three buildings and one object (a sign) situated on approximately 1.3 acres in the 900 block of Garfield Street.
The Garfield Historic District is in a section of Poplar Bluff that represents the area where African-
Americans settled and formed a community within Poplar Bluff. The buildings located at 914-916, 915, and 921 Garfield Street represent the only intact cohesive collection of early twentieth-century commercial with attached dwelling, educational and religious buildings that interrelate to express a history of development, commerce, education, and social history spanning the district’s period of significance 1908 - 1968.
Year listed: 2017
Description: The Garfield Historic District contains the most cohesive, intact collection of African American resources in the community. The district encompasses three buildings and one object (a sign) situated on approximately 1.3 acres in the 900 block of Garfield Street.
The Garfield Historic District is in a section of Poplar Bluff that represents the area where African-
Americans settled and formed a community within Poplar Bluff. The buildings located at 914-916, 915, and 921 Garfield Street represent the only intact cohesive collection of early twentieth-century commercial with attached dwelling, educational and religious buildings that interrelate to express a history of development, commerce, education, and social history spanning the district’s period of significance 1908 - 1968.
Creator
Terri L. Foley, Private Contractor
Historic Preservation Consultant
tlfoley@zoho.com
Historic Preservation Consultant
tlfoley@zoho.com
Publisher
National Park Service
Date
Published: 8/11/2017
Format
pdf
Language
English
Identifier
National Register Information System ID: 100001686