It encompasses 66 contributing buildings in the central business district of Linton.

It developed between about 1870 and 1950, and includes notable examples of Italianate and Romanesque Revival style architecture.

Notable buildings include the Linton Masonic Hall (c. 1900), I.O.O.F.

Building (1892), Fourth Vein Coal Company Department Story (c. 1890), Telephone Exchange Building (1910), Linton Post Office (1934), Cine Theater (1938), and Linton City Hall (1913).

This article about a property in Greene County, Indiana on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.