LaHarpe Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The La Harpe Historic District is a historic district located in downtown La Harpe, Illinois. The district, which is primarily commercial, includes the 100 East and 100 West blocks of Main Street and the 100 South block of Center Street.”
Wikipedia article La Harpe Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Hancock County · listed in 1987 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 100--124 W. Main St., 100--122 and 101--129 E. Main Sts., 101--121 S. Center St., and City Pk., LaHarpe, 61450
When was it listed? April 1987
Category. district
Township. La Harpe township
National Register reference number. 87000031 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

3,314 words

This property stands in La Harpe Township. History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws, published 1880 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on La Harpe Township - 3,314 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	LaHarpe City Hall	0.1 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000031 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hancock County	All 9 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.