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- Jefferson Street-Fountain Avenue Residential District — in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the City of Paducah expanded in a westerly direction. This development also included residential construction, facilitated by the installation of electric street car lines in the area. The Jefferson Street-Fountain Avenue neighborhood dates to this period and represents the earliest housing built in this section of the city. By the turn of the century, it had grown into one of Paducah's most prestigious neighborhoods, with many of the city's leading citizens residing there. Visually, the district displays the widest range of styling popular during the late Victorian era through the second decade of the twentieth century than any other neighborhood in Paducah. It contains the best collection in the city of turn-of-the-century residential architecture. Over the years, the district has retained its integrity as a neighborhood, with few contemporary residential or commercial structures present. [Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky]
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