Emily Kimbrough Historic District (Muncie, Indiana)

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The Emily Kimbrough Historic District makes up a small part of the East Central Neighborhood District. It became a local historic district in 1976 and placed on the national registry in 1978.

The district was named for Hoosier author Emily Kimbrough (born 1899) who lived in a house at 715 East Washington Street in the early years of this century. Her writing reflects Muncie's past, with reminiscences of the "East End", as the area was called earlier in the century.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the East End was the preferred neighborhood of Muncie's socially elite and prosperous citizens. Most houses in the district were built after the discovery of natural gas in Delaware County in 1886, an event which transformed Muncie into a commercial and industrial center of east central Indiana. The prosperity of the ensuing years may be seen today in buildings, which remain from this period.