West Market Street Boulevard Historic District

West Market Street Boulevard Historic District is a residential neighborhood on the west side of Lima, Ohio, running from Woodlawn Avenue to Glenwood Avenue. It forms the first plat of a four-plat development dedicated in 1920 by Lawrence C. Townsend and others, and its houses face a landscaped boulevard in the center of the street. Twenty-five homes, along with garages, a pergola and a garden shed, were built between 1921 and 1955 on lots of roughly equal size. Tudor Revival is the most common style, alongside Georgian Revival, Colonial Revival and a few Ranch houses. Many are brick, with details such as half-timbering, false-thatched roofs, solariums and porte-cocheres. The district matters both as a planned residential section marketed as exclusive and as the home of leading Lima figures, including physicians, lawyers, a congressman, oil and roofing-tile businessmen and financiers. Its largely intact houses show how architectural tastes changed over about three decades.