Gates Jewelers - Bolivar Court Square Historic District - Bolivar, TN
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N 35° 15.374 W 088° 59.302
16S E 319114 N 3903271
Building number 7 on the NRHP Listing.
Waymark Code: WMWHY2
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 09/09/2017
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County of building: Hardeman County
Location of building: 108-110 W. Market St., Bolivar
Occupant at listing: Gates Jewelers &
Purple Daisy
Current occupant: Advance Business Consultants,
NAACP & Mobile Nation
Building built: ca. 1890
"7. Gates Jewelers - Purple Daisy (108-110 West Market Street): ca. 1890, 1 story
brick commercial building, originally 3 sections, dentiled brick cornice, ornate
iron attic vents, decorative lintels in right section, slightly modernized." ~ NRHP Nomination Form
"Bolivar is the county seat of Hardeman County, which is located in southwestern Tennessee.
The Bolivar Court Square Historic District, which includes the court square and a small
extension to the east, contains forty buildings and one structure (a monument); twenty
eight buildings and the monument contribute to the significance of the district, and there
are twelve other buildings. The district has commercial, government, religious, and
residential buildings.
"Twenty-two of the twenty-eight buildings and structures which contribute to the significance of the district are commercial or professional buildings; of this number thirteen are nineteenth-century buildings and the remaining nine were constructed between 1900 and 1915. This collection is a catalogue of styles of commercial buildings built in a southern county seat during the period 1852 to 1915; there is at least one building representing each of the seven decades." ~ NRHP Nomination Form