Main Street Historic District

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The Main Street Historic District encompasses the historic commercial center of Middletown, Connecticut, United States. Middletown was one of the most important ports on the Connecticut River during the colonial period, and Main Street "has been the center of community life since the earliest period of settlement". Today Main Street is home to a number of 19th century buildings, maintaining the bulk of its historic character. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The district extends along Main Street from St. John's Square (junction with Spring Street) in the north, for five blocks on the west side (to College Street) and 4-1/2 blocks on the right (midway between Washington and Court Streets), abutting the Metro South Historic District on the west side, and modern buildings on the right. According to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nomination for the district, two properties in the district—the Church of the Holy Trinity and the Old Middletown Post Office are already on the NRHP in their own right. Three other individual properties were determined to be for NRHP status in their own right: the Arthur Magill, Jr. House/Chase School at 631 Main Street, the Main Street Firehouse at 533 Main Street, and the North End Meeting House at 710-712 Main Street. More generally, the entire block on the east side of Main Street from Washington to Ferry Streets, and numbers 560-614 from Ferry to Green were determined to be eligible. 225 Main Street, Farmers & Mechanics Savings Bank, 1920 237-45 Main Street, Nehemiah Hubbard House, before 1788, major Greek Revival style remodeling. (No longer extant 2012: 225 Main Street has an annex on this site.) 267 Main Street, Connecticut Bank and Trust, 1920, Renaissance Revival (Prior to use by CBT, was Middletown National Bank) 291 Main Street, Old Post Office, 1916, Renaissance Revival 315 Main Street, Middletown Savings Bank, 1928, Academic Classicism 319-323 Main Street, Old Banking House Block, 1796 - south section; 1815 - north section 335 Main Street, Guy & Rice Building, 1930, Renaissance Revival 339-351 Main Street, Commercial Building, 1892, originally erected as YMCA 354 Main Street, The Capitol Theater, 1925, Neo-Classical Revival 357-359 Main Street, Hubbard-Holland Building, 1873 360 Main Street, Pythian Building, ca. 1874, remodeled 1938, Renaissance Revival detail 363 Main Street, Central National Bank Building, 1915, Renaissance Revival detail, remodelled 1980 366-386 Main Street, James H. Bunce Company, ca. 1920, early Modern Commercial 381 Main Street, The Church of the Holy Trinity, 1871–1874, Gothic Revival, Henry Dudley architect

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