The White Cloud Historic District is a historic district in White Cloud, Kansas which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. It is roughly bounded by Poplar, 6th, Chesnut Sts. and K-7 and included 67 contributing buildings and a contributing site, as well as 15 non-contributing buildings and a non-contributing site.
It includes Italianate, Gothic Revival, and Greek Revival architecture.
According to the National Register nomination, the following 12 are "key contributing buildings" in the district: Poulet House or Alexis Poulet House (1879-1880), on Poplar between 1st & 2nd, which was separately listed on the National Register in 1971 White Cloud School/St. Joseph's Church (c.1865), on Poplar between 3rd & 4th, which was separately listed on the National Register in 1973 James M. & Anna Beckett House (c.1866), at northeast corner of 2nd & Poplar C.W. Noyes House (c.1867), at southwest corner of 2nd & Poplar William Lynds House (1908), at southwest corner of 1st & Poplar White Cloud Barber Shop (1864), north side of Main between 1st & 2nd Streets Bailey & Noyes Fancy Dry Goods Store (1868–69), at northeast corner of 1st & Main. Included as tenants a bank, then by 1905 a post office. Sol Miller Building (1865–66), at southeast corner of 2nd & Main Atchison & Nebraska City Railroad Depot (1871, moved in 1938), on south side of Main between K-7 & 1st. J.E.H. Chapman House (1880), at northeast corner of 3rd & Chestnut Springer-Campbell House (1880), at southeast corner of 3rd & Chestnut James M. & Anna Beckett House (c.1866), at northeast corner of 2nd & Poplar. "This National Folk, gable-front house is an excellent example of the Greek Revival vernacular."
Others include: First State Bank building (1923), at northeast corner of 2nd & Main, which has the First State Bank of White Cloud in one half and the post office in the other.
The district overlooks the Missouri River. With .
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