The Shelbyville Historic District is a historic district encompassing the core of Shelbyville,

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. The district includes 398 buildings, 293 of which are

contributing building In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distr ...

s. The section of Shelbyville laid out at the city's founding in 1827 forms the center of the district. Shelbyville's public square, which includes the 1880 Shelby County Courthouse and a veterans' memorial, is the central feature of this part of the historic district. The original section of Shelbyville also includes significant commercial and government buildings. The district also includes Shelbyville's oldest residential areas, which developed out from the 1827 core. The

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...

style is the most prominent architectural style in the district, both in homes and commercial buildings; other common architectural styles include

Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an Architectural style, architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half ...

, Second Empire, and Queen Anne. The district was added to the

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on December 22, 1976.

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Greek Revival architecture in Illinois Gothic Revival architecture in Illinois Italianate architecture in Illinois Queen Anne architecture in Illinois Second Empire architecture in Illinois Buildings and structures in Shelby County, Illinois Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois National Register of Historic Places in Shelby County, Illinois {{ShelbyCountyIL-NRHP-stub