Downtown Morehead Historic District

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| name = Downtown Morehead Historic District

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| image = Morehead Police Department on Main Street.jpg

| caption = Main Street, including Morehead Police Department at right, in 2018

| 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

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| locmapin = Kentucky#USA

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| added = May 11, 2022

| area = {{convert|30.37|acre|ha}}

| refnum = 100006264{{cite web|url =https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/weekly-list-2022-05-13.htm |title=Weekly List 2022 05 13 |publisher=National Park Service}}

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The Downtown Morehead Historic District, in Morehead in Rowan County, Kentucky, is a {{convert|30.37|acre|ha}} historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.{{cite news|url=https://foxlexington.com/news/kentucky/downtown-morehead-now-on-national-register-of-historic-places/ |title=Downtown Morehead now on National Register of Historic Places |author=Georgiaree Godfrey |date=August 22, 2022 |publisher=FOX 56, Lexington, Kentucky}}{{cite news| publisher=Spectrum News 1 / Associated Press |url=https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2022/08/18/morehead-kentucky-downtown-district-added-to-national-register |title=Morehead's historic downtown district added to National Register |date=August 18, 2022}}

Its area is the original downtown business district area, as of 1881. It is roughly bounded by South Hargis Ave., West 1st, East 1st, Bridge, East Main, and East 2nd Sts., North Wilson Ave., and West Main St. and includes 55 contributing buildings, 17 non-contributing buildings and 23 non-contributing sites.

{{cite web|url=https://heritage.ky.gov/Documents/Morehead%20Historic%20District%20Completed%20DRAFT.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Downtown Morehead Historic District |publisher=National Park Service|author= |date= |accessdate=July 22, 2022}} With {{NRHP url|id=13000567|photos=y|title=accompanying pictures}}

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." The structure, one site in the program, was moved to this location in 1972 from Big Brushy (a locality about eight miles north).
• - 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.

{{Gallery

|File:Rowan County, kentucky courthouse.jpg |Rowan County Courthouse, in 2007

|File:MoonlightSchool.JPG |Midnight School, in 2009

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