South Charleston Historic District

South Charleston's historic core is a twelve-block area of Clark County, Ohio, organized around Chillicothe Street and the cross streets that meet it. About 55 key buildings, mostly homes along with businesses and the 1878 Town Hall, sit among roughly 150 other structures. Most date from 1867 to 1897, though about thirteen predate the Civil War. Styles include late Greek Revival, Gothic, Italian Renaissance, Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne, alongside plain vernacular houses and workingmen's homes from 1830 to 1900. Local architect-builder Edward Edwards designed or built many of the later houses. The Town Hall holds a second-floor opera house with a gallery and stage. The district was recognized because its buildings trace the growth of a rural Ohio town through the nineteenth century, from early frame and log dwellings to brick houses with machine-cut stone trim. Most homes are cared for by long-established families, and few intrusions, such as service stations and a shopping plaza, were left within the boundary.