Historic Mansion Row District (New Albany, Indiana)

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Stretching for several blocks along Main and Market streets east of downtown, Mansion Row constitutes the best single collection of Federal, Italianate, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Victorian architecture in the Louisville Metropolitan area. During the 19th century such notables as industrialist Washington C. DePauw, merchant William S. Culbertson, U.S. Speaker of the House Michael C. Kerr, physician Asahel Clapp, and playwright William Vaughn Moody enriched this neighborhood. Conveying a sense of New Albany’s 19th century commercial prominence is the State Bank of Indiana Building.

Built in 1837 at a cost of $40,000, this two-story Greek Revival structure was the largest building in the city at the time of its completion. Most of the structures in Mansion Row have been carefully restored, providing a glimpse of life in New Albany’s "Age of Elegance".