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►tee ram V40" are AW"ft 1024,M18 <br /> (SM <br /> United States Department of the Interior <br /> National Park Service <br /> National Register of Historic Places <br /> Continuation Sheet <br /> Section number 7 Page 5— <br /> contributing building in Block 1. Noncontributing properties are denoted by <br /> the use of the letter N, instead of a sequential number. In the case of a <br /> block with more than one noncontributing element then a number follows the <br /> letter. Log number B46-N2 identifies the second noncontributing structure <br /> in Block 46, in Black Hawk. The log numbers for the ten sites in the <br /> district include a letter "S" . CG-Sl is the log number for the St. Aloysius <br /> Academy Site located in Central City, on Gunnel Hill and is the first site <br /> in the district. A particular property can be located on the appropriate <br /> town site map by locating the block, as identified in the log number, and <br /> then matching the location number in the log number with the number shown <br /> for each structure on the site map. As well as being the key to the town <br /> site maps the log numbers also index the survey. <br /> Buildings, structures, sites, and objects contributing to the NHL district <br /> are organized below by type, town, and date of construction. Within each <br /> category structures are listed chronologically by their date of <br /> construction. Any buildings sharing the same year of construction are then <br /> listed in numerical order by log number. Location within each town, <br /> historic name if known, building style and material, and historic function <br /> also are listed. Almost all buildings are vernacular, but many have <br /> distinctive stylistic features. The use of the term "vernacular" has <br /> therefore been omitted from the listing. Any building with no style listed <br /> is considered simple vernacular; if it is vernacular with definite stylistic <br /> features, only those features have been indicated by, for example, "w/Ital" <br /> or "w/Goth Rev. " Within the domestic category, all structures served as <br /> residences, thus this is not indicated in the listing. All non-contributing <br /> elements in the NHL district are listed separately from contributing <br /> resources. <br /> I. Contributing Commercial Buildings <br /> The surviving architecture of the NHL district illustrates the successive <br /> stages typical of Western mining town architecture, from the earliest simple <br /> wood frame structures of the first decade, through the more elaborate and <br /> permanent masonry construction that came later with economic prosperity and <br /> optimism that the town's future growth was assured. Of the three towns of <br /> the Central City-Black Hawk District, only Black Hawk retains a significant <br /> number of the earliest wood frame commercial buildings typical of the first <br /> architectural phase. A devastating fire in 1874 destroyed most of the 1860s <br /> commercial district of Central City, as well as about 20 percent of its <br /> residential buildings. A series of fires occurred in Nevadaville, the first <br />