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ONE BLOCK OF MAIN STREET; 14 CONTRIBUTING, 7 NONCONTRIBUTING
The town's second designation is its commercial block: listed 26 March 2014, Criteria A and C, period of significance c. 1880–1960. The nomination's fuller name governs — North Liberty Commercial Historic District; the shortened "North Liberty Historic District" also circulates (the county list's form). Its ground: the historic commercial area one block in length on each side of Main Street — the east side of North Main Street from East Center Street to East Harrison Street (the NPS record's boundary form: State Road 23 between Center and Harrison Streets) — with a resource count of buildings only: 14 contributing, 7 noncontributing. The named resources, dates as the form carries them: Worster Building, 100 North Main Street (1892 — the form's inventory line marks it Non-contributing while listing it first; printed as the form prints it, the apparent tension unresolved here); Finch Block (c. 1900); Hoffman Block (c. 1885); L. W. Pommert Building (1920); North Liberty City Hall (1915); Masonic Hall (c. 1925); Community State Bank (1960); Starr Grocery (c. 1911); North Liberty State Bank (c. 1911 — the building at 125 North Main, built 1909–1912 per the banked banks file; the bank itself was closed by the state on 17 January 1927, an institutional loss, not a building loss); Service Garage (c. 1935); Modern Speed Wash (1960). The course: nomination prepared by Kurt West Garner, Partners in Preservation (15 May 2012); the Indiana Historic Preservation Review Board voted to recommend approval; the State Historic Preservation Officer transmitted it 24 January 2014; the form was received at NPS 7 February 2014. One error in the town's own record is flagged and not repeated: the town's 2015 Comprehensive Plan misstates both of the town's listings as "Historic National Landmarks" and prints the park's reference number as "7000211" — neither property is a National Landmark; both are National Register listings, and the plan's error stands in the banked spine as the caution.
NPS NPGallery asset record NRIS 14000077; Garner nomination (2012) and DNR transmittal letter (24 Jan. 2014), via search extracts; banked The Story of North Liberty, Sources, Banks.