Villa North Historic District

Historic district in Indiana, United States

United States historic place


Villa North Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Villa North Historic District, November 2011
40°44′58″N 85°10′08″W / 40.74944°N 85.16889°W / 40.74944; -85.16889
Area	10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built	1891 (1891)
Architect	Multiple
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Bungalow/craftsman, Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.	85001192^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 4, 1985

Villa North Historic District is a national historic district located at Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana. The district encompasses 24 contributing buildings in an exclusively residential section of Bluffton. It developed between about 1891 and 1915 and includes representative examples of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Notable contributing houses include the Lent Williamson Residence (Longfields, 1891), Amos King Residence (1894), Peter Beeler Residence (1899), and Wiley Messick Residence (c. 1915).^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved July 1, 2016. Note: This includes Craig Leonard (November 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Villa North Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved July 1, 2016., Site map, and Quad map