Dealey Plaza

Dealey Plaza Historic District
View from southwest, with the former Texas School Book Depository building at left, Dal-Tex Building in center, and the Dallas County Records Annex at right, 2003
Dealey Plaza Historic District is located in Texas
Dealey Plaza Historic District
Dealey Plaza Historic District
Dealey Plaza Historic District is located in the United States
Dealey Plaza Historic District
Dealey Plaza Historic District
LocationRoughly bounded by Pacific Ave., Market St., Jackson St. and right of way of Dallas Right of Way Management Company, Dallas, Texas
Coordinates32°46′43″N 96°48′31″W / 32.77861°N 96.80861°W / 32.77861; -96.80861
Area15 acres (6.1 ha)
Built1890 (1890)
ArchitectMultiple
Architectural styleChicago, Early Commercial, Romanesque
NRHP reference No.93001607[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPApril 19, 1993[1]
Designated NHLDOctober 12, 1993[2][3]

Dealey Plaza /ˈdl/ is a city park in the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas, Texas. It is sometimes called the "birthplace of Dallas". It was also the location of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. Thirty minutes after the shooting, Kennedy was pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital. The Dealey Plaza Historic District was named a National Historic Landmark on the 30th anniversary of the assassination, to preserve Dealey Plaza, street rights-of-way, buildings, and structures by the plaza visible from the assassination site, that have been identified as witness locations or as possible locations for the assassin.[2][3]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Dealey Plaza Historic District". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on November 13, 2012. Retrieved June 23, 2008.
  3. ^ a b Dallas County Historical Foundation (August 1991). National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Dealey Plaza Historic District (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original on September 3, 2021. Retrieved June 7, 2012. and Accompanying photos and maps, various dates (3.14 MB)