Greenfield Public Square Historic District Walking Tour
Case Forensics. 2016. Greenfield Public Square Historic District Walking Tour. Greenfield Historic Preservation Commission; Greenfield Chamber/Main Street; State Historical Society of Iowa. Greenfield, Iowa
A 37-stop interpretive tour of Greenfield's Public Square Historic District. From introduction: "The town of Greenfield was laid out in 1856 and the original town plat had at its heart an unusual public square, (actually a rectangle) known as a Lancaster Square - a city planning model where the streets intersect the square in the middle of each side, rather than at the corners. Milton and Mary C. Munger platted out Greenfield but the county surveyor, D.M. Valentine, may have been responsible for the square’s design as he had lived in Ohio and Illinois, two states in which Lancaster squares are more common. Early 20th Century development was a combination of one and two story brick buildings with construction occurring on all sides of the Public Square. The earliest Sanborn map from 1886 shows heavier construction of two story commercial buildings on the east side of the square with smaller single story buildings filling most of the other lots." Project funding was provided in part by a 2015 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the City of Greenfield (project number IA-15-043) administered by the Iowa State Historic Preservation Office (grant number P15AF00189) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Greenfield, Iowa is a Certified Local Government.
- Type
- Generic Document
- Authors
- Case Forensics
- Date of Issue
- 2016-06
- Publisher
- Greenfield Historic Preservation Commission; Greenfield Chamber/Main Street; State Historical Society of Iowa
- Units
- HPF
- Keywords
- Interpretive Materials; Interpretive Tours; Brochures