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Downtown Aurora Historic District is a national historic district located at Aurora, Dearborn County, Indiana.The district encompasses 272 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 3 contributing structures in the central business district of Aurora.
The Middle Avenue Historic District is an industrial historic district located on two square blocks in downtown Aurora, Illinois.The district includes eleven buildings, eight of which are contributing buildings to its historic nature.
Aurora is a city in northeastern Illinois, United States, located along the Fox River. The population was 180,542 at the 2020 census. [4] It is the second-most populous city in Illinois, after Chicago, [5] and the 144th-most populous city in the US. [6] Aurora is the largest city in Illinois that is not the county seat of any county that it ...
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The Aurora Planning Commission approved the transfer of a conditional zoning certificate for an events center in the former country club building.
Aurora was platted in 1819. [4] It was named for Aurora, the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology. [5] Aurora was incorporated in 1848. [6]Aurora is known for its historic downtown area and the ornate Hillforest mansion built for Thomas Gaff who earned his fortune shipping goods on the Ohio River by steamboat. [7]
Hillforest was designed by Isaiah Rogers and built in 1855 for Thomas Gaff (1808–1884), a Scottish born businessman who moved to Aurora in the 1840s. Gaff and his siblings had a large number of business interests, including alcohol production (distilleries and breweries), railroads, and steamships.
It is located in the Downtown Aurora Historic District. According to the church's website "a committee of the Presbytery of Madison organized the 'First Presbyterian Church of Aurora, Indiana' in 1844" with members of the Hancock, Gaff, Cannon, Kennedy, Lotham, McConnell, and Witherow families and Rev. W.A. Smith as the first installed pastor. [3]