Elizabethtown Courthouse Square and Commercial District

{{short description|Historic district in Kentucky, United States}}

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Elizabethtown Courthouse Square and Commercial District

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| image = Hardin County Courthouse in Elizabethtown.jpg

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| location= KY 61, Elizabethtown, Kentucky

|coordinates={{coord|37|41|35|N|85|51|29|W|source:NRIS2010a|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Kentucky#USA

| architect=Multiple

builder = Multiple

| architecture = Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Italianate

| added = March 19, 1980

| area = {{convert|10|acre|ha}}

| refnum = 80001535{{NRISref|version=2013a}}

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The Elizabethtown Courthouse Square and Commercial District, in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, is a {{convert|10|acre|ha}} historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The listing included 38 contributing buildings.

It includes the Hardin County Courthouse, built in 1933 in Georgian Revival style. The courthouse has a three-story brick central section with a slightly projecting entrance pavilion, which has a shallow portico. The courthouse replaced an 1873 courthouse which was damaged in 1932 by a fire.

The district is located on Kentucky Route 61. It consists of the courthouse square and one block of West Dixie street west of the courthouse, containing the surviving historic core of the city. It consists of two- and three-story brick buildings, 38 out of 40 being deemed contributing.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=80001535}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Elizabethtown Courthouse Square and Commercial District |publisher=National Park Service|author=Charlotte Schneider |date=August 1979 |accessdate=March 16, 2019}} With {{NRHP url|id=80001535|photos=y|title=accompanying 21 photos from 1979}}