Nauvoo Historic District

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Nauvoo Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark District

Joseph Smith House
Location:	Nauvoo, Illinois
Built:	1839
Architect:	Unknown
Architectural style:	No Style Listed
Governing body:	State
NRHP Reference#:	66000321
Added to NRHP:	October 15, 1966^[1]
Designated NHLD:	January 20, 1961^[2]

Nauvoo Historic District is a historic district containing the city of Nauvoo, Illinois. The historic district is nearly coterminous with the City of Nauvoo as it was incorporated in 1840, but it also includes the Pioneer Saints Cemetery (40°32′13″N 91°21′03″W / 40.5369°N 91.3507°W / 40.5369; -91.3507 (Old Nauvoo Burial Grounds)), the oldest Mormon cemetery in the area, which is outside the town boundary.^[3]

Contributing structures include:

Brigham Young Home
Concert Hall (no longer in existence)
Heber C. Kimball House
Jonathan Browning Houses and Workshops
Joseph Smith Homestead
Mansion House
Masonic Temple
Nauvoo House
Nauvoo Illinois Temple
Red Brick Store
The Seventies Hall
Times and Seasons Building
Wilford Woodruff House

There are many non-contributing, modern structures in the district.

The district was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.^[2]^[3]

See also [edit]

	Latter-day Saints portal
	Book of Mormon portal

History of Nauvoo, Illinois

References [edit]

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23.
^ ^a ^b "Nauvoo Historic District". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2007-10-12.
^ ^a ^b Blanche Higgins Schroer and Ray H. Mattison (March 27, 1976) National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Nauvoo, Illinois, National Park Service and Accompanying 12 images, from 1975 or undated, including one engraving reproduced from an 1873 book.

External links [edit]

Historic Nauvoo - information on Nauvoo's historic sites, from the Illinois Nauvoo Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Historic sites of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Northeast

Palmyra	Book of Mormon Historic Publication Site Hill Cumorah Smith Family Farm (Sacred Grove)

Kirtland	Historic Kirtland Village (Newel K. Whitney Store) Kirtland Temple

Other	Aaronic Priesthood Restoration Site John Johnson Farm Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial Peter Whitmer log home Washington D.C. Temple Visitors' Center

Midwest

Nauvoo	Nauvoo Visitors' Center Nauvoo Temple Nauvoo Historic District Red Brick Store

Missouri	Far West Temple Site Adam-ondi-Ahman Liberty Jail Independence (Zion) Temple Lot Independence Visitors' Center Haun's Mill

Other	Carthage Jail Winter Quarters (Mormon Trail Center Mormon Pioneer Cemetery)

West

Salt Lake City	Temple Square (Salt Lake Temple Tabernacle Tabernacle Organ Assembly Hall) Conference Center (Organ) Church Office Building Joseph Smith Memorial Building Church Administration Building Relief Society Building Brigham Young Complex (Beehive House Lion House) Family History Library Church History Museum Church History Library Granite Mountain Records Vault Mormon Pioneer Memorial Monument This is the Place Monument Brigham Young Monument

Other	Cove Fort Farmington Rock Chapel St. George Temple Visitors' Center Laie Hawaii Temple Visitors' Center Polynesian Cultural Center Mormon Corridor Martin's Cove Pipe Spring National Monument

Non-U.S.

Coordinates: 40°32′53″N 91°22′55″W / 40.548°N 91.382°W / 40.548; -91.382

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