The district includes the area of Platteville's early business districts on Second Street and Main, platted like an English village with narrow streets, narrow lots, and a village green.[2] Includes the 1847
Federal-styled Parnell Building (pictured),[3] the 1853 Hendershot Harness Shop,[4] the 1876
Italianate Kettler building,[5] the 1906 Italianate Wedige Saloon,[6] the 1906
Queen Anne Dr. Cunningham house,[7] the 1914
Tudor RevivalCarnegie Library,[8] the 1924
Neoclassical First National Bank,[9] and the 1938
Art Deco Municipal Building.[10]