{"nrhp_refnum":"80003027","name":"Gallipolis Public Square and Garden Lots Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Court and State Sts., 1st and 2nd Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gallipolis","county":"Gallia County","state":"OH","lat":38.80759368900007,"lon":-82.2040089150237,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-01-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio, covering the three-acre Public Square (La Place), about thirty significant 19th-century buildings, and the Garden Lots along the Ohio River, now residential. It is located around Court, State, First and Second Avenues.","why_significant":"The district contains the site of the original 1790 French settlement of Gallipolis and a cohesive set of 19th-century residential and commercial buildings around it. Several buildings are tied to the original French settlers and to early local figures. The form notes that few buildings have undergone major alterations, giving the district a continuous architectural quality.","narrative":"Gallipolis Public Square and Garden Lots Historic District occupies a high bank above the Ohio River in Gallia County, Ohio. At its center is the three-acre Public Square, called La Place, where French settlers built eighty log cabins in four rows beginning in October 1790. Today the square holds a park, an 1878 Eastlake-influenced wooden bandstand and two war memorials. Around it stand about thirty buildings from the 19th century, mixing homes and commercial blocks, along with the Garden Lots along the river that are now residential. Featured buildings include the 1811 Federal LeClerq House, built by one of the original French settlers, the 1819 Our House tavern where General Lafayette was entertained in 1825, the 1894 Lupton Block in Richardsonian Romanesque style, and several Greek Revival houses on First Avenue. Few buildings have seen major alteration, so the district retains a cohesive appearance and a visible link to the town's French origins.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Peter LeClerq (LeClerq House); John Peter Romaine Bureau (Bureau House); Henry Cushing (Our House); Rene Carel (McGinness House); Joseph Vanden-bemden (Tap House)","architectural_style":"Mixed 19th-century styles including Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Richardsonian Romanesque, French Second Empire, Queen Anne, and Eastlake","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent, good and fair; the district is occupied, with commercial, park and private residential uses. Some buildings have been converted, for example the former Lafayette hotel to a shopping mall and the Ohio Valley Bank Building to shops.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.475257-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003027.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"01000899","name":"Gallipolis Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/gallipolis-historic-district-01000899/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988648","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/gallia-county/gallipolis-public-square-and-garden-lots-historic-district-80003027/"}