The Downtown Pomeroy Historic District is a historic district in Pomeroy, Washington, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
Description
The district is roughly bounded by Main, Tenth, Ninth, Columbia, and Sixth streets.
The Garfield County Courthouse, which was designed by Charles Burggraf and is separately NRHP-listed, is one of its 42 contributing buildings. It includes Italianate and Gothic Revival architecture.
It was deemed significant "as an intact concentration of building[s] reflecting the early development of Pomeroy as the leading business, governmental, trading, and shipping center of Garfield County." Pomeroy grew in the 1870s when dryland wheat farming took off and further in 1886 when a railroad arrived and the town became the Garfield County seat. It is notable for its "excellent collection of primarily commercial buildings" dating from the 1880s to the 1950s. and
The district was listed on the NFHP August 21, 2003.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Garfield County, Washington
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