Independence Historic District (Evansville, Indiana)
Independence Historic District, also known as the West Franklin Street-Wabash Avenue Historic District, is a national historic district located in the Lamasco neighborhood of Evansville, Indiana. The district developed after 1880, and encompasses 95 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site. It includes commercial and residential properties and representative examples of Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque, and Beaux-Arts style architecture. Notable buildings include the West Branch Carnegie Library, Laval Block, Heldt-Voelker Hardware Store, First Federal Savings, Gerke Building, August Rosenberger House, and St. Boniface Church.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
