Downtown Morehead Historic District

Downtown Morehead Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Main Street, including Morehead Police Department at right, in 2018
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Location	Roughly bounded by South Hargis Ave., West 1st, East 1st, Bridge, East Main, and East 2nd Sts., North Wilson Ave., and West Main St., Morehead, Kentucky
Coordinates	38°10′50″N 83°26′10″W / 38.1805°N 83.4361°W / 38.1805; -83.4361
Area	30.37 acres (12.29 ha)
NRHP reference No.	100006264[1]
Added to NRHP	May 11, 2022

The Downtown Morehead Historic District, in

The District includes:

• Morehead Police Department (1938), 105 E. Main St., in Works Progress Administration-era building which was U.S. Post Office until 1987, and later was City Hall
• Morehead Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Freight Depot (1904), already separately NRHP-listed in 2016
• Rowan County Courthouse (1899), already separately NRHP-listed
• Moonlight School, 182 East 1st St., a
  one room schoolhouse building now on the campus of Morehead State, representing how in 1911 educator Cora Wilson Stewart, superindentend of Rowan County schools, began the Midnight Schools, the "forerunner of adult education in the United States and the world."^[4] The structure, one site in the program, was moved to this location in 1972 from Big Brushy (a locality about eight miles north).^[4]
• - First Christian Church (1925), 227 E. Main St., church which replaced the Union Church that had been built by Col. John Hargis, founder of Morehead. Col. Hargis's funeral was the first in the new building.^[4]

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