Polk Street Terraces Historic District
Polk Street Terraces Historic District is a national historic district located in the First Subdivision of Gary, Indiana. The district encompasses 20 contributing buildings in a residential section of Gary.Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Van Buren Terrace Historic District and Polk Street Concrete Cottage Historic District.
Van Buren Terrace Historic District
Historic site
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Van Buren Terrace Historic District is a national historic district located in the First Subdivision of Gary, Indiana. The district encompasses 10 contributing buildings in a residential section of Gary. Van Buren Terrace Historic District is situated 1,100 feet northeast of Polk Street Terraces Historic District.
Polk Street Concrete Cottage Historic District
Historic site
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Polk Street Concrete Cottage Historic District is a national historic district located in the First Subdivision of Gary, Indiana. The district encompasses four contributing buildings in a residential section of Gary. Polk Street Concrete Cottage Historic District is situated 1,200 feet south of Polk Street Terraces Historic District.
Jackson–Monroe Terraces Historic District
Historic site
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Jackson–Monroe Terraces Historic District is a national historic district located in the First Subdivision of Gary, Indiana. The district encompasses 30 contributing buildings in a residential section of Gary. Jackson–Monroe Terraces Historic District is situated 1,500 feet east of Polk Street Terraces Historic District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Downtown West and Gary.
Downtown West
Quarter
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Downtown West, is a neighborhood in north-central Gary, Indiana. Emerson and Downtown West combine to form what is known as Downtown Gary. It was part of the original plat built by the United States Steel Corporation.
Gary
Photo: Marc Tarlock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana. It is perhaps best known as the birthplace of the legendary pop star Michael Jackson. Founded in 1906 as a company town for U.S. Steel, it thrived in the 1950s and early 60s and earned the nickname "The Magic City".
Horace Mann Historic District
Neighborhood
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Horace Mann Historic District is a national historic district located at Gary, Indiana, United States. The district encompasses 130 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in an exclusively residential section of Gary.
Polk Street Terraces Historic District
- Type: Historic site
- Description: historic district in Indiana, United States
- Categories: historic district, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Calumet Township, Lake County, Northwestern Indiana, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.60311° or 41° 36′ 11″ northLongitude
-87.3497° or 87° 20′ 59″ westOpen location code
86HJJM32+64OpenStreetMap ID
node 10977547135OpenStreetMap feature
historic=districtWikidata ID
Q24041526
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