Birch, Flynn, Elm and Gene Taylor are streets within the district which still retain their original brick paving.

[3] The NRHP application notes that the Central Square (the area containing the Courthouse, post office and land office) also supports Criterion C. This area was named "Government Acre," and was laid out by Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior under President Grover Cleveland.

Prospective settlers needed to register their claims at the land office (located in a wooden courthouse), as soon as possible.

[b] People who intended to live and work in the town immediately threw up tents, some of which would remain in place for several years.

[d] It would eventually contain the Noble County Courthouse, the Carnegie Library, the Post Office and the city's Central Park.

After squatters were driven off, Government Acre was a dusty lot in the center of town, occupied only by the small wooden Post Office building.

[4] Will T. Little, a local nature lover, got permission from the county commissioners in 1896, to plant elm tree seedlings on Government Acre.

A lumber company, T. M. Richardson & Sons, Inc., constructed a two-story wooden building on the east side of the property to serve this purpose.