Shawmut Historic District
historic district in Valley, Alabama
The Shawmut Historic District, in Valley, Alabama, United States, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. The listing included 275 contributing buildings, a contributing structure, and a contributing site on 201 acres (0.81 km2). It is roughly bounded by 25th Boulevard, 29th Boulevard, 20th Avenue, 35th Street, and 38th Boulevard.
It includes work by the Lockwood, Greene & Company.
The architecture is in the Bungalow/Craftsman and Depression modern styles.
“Shawmut Historic District” enters the record as historic district in Valley, Alabama. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Shawmut, Historic and District can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85800717. Authority coordinates are 32.840, -85.183. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1999.
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