Wheeling Avenue Historic District

Wheeling Avenue forms the downtown spine of Cambridge, Ohio, and this district covers its central business blocks from the railroad tracks on the west to Tenth Street. About 60 buildings, mostly two to four stories and built of brick, line the street. Their dates run from the 1860s into the early 20th century. The sandstone Second Empire courthouse of 1883, designed by J.W. Yost, sits in a landscaped park near the center, with the Carnegie Library behind it and the 1914 Post Office nearby. Commercial buildings range from Queen Anne and Italianate designs to the High Victorian Odd Fellows hall of 1896, and railroad stations and freight houses stand at the western edge. The district was recognized because Cambridge served as county seat from 1809 and as a commercial hub along Zane's Trace and later the railroads. Its buildings show the town's development from the mid-19th century to the 1930s.