St. Elmo Historic District (Chattanooga, Tennessee)

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St. Elmo Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
St. Elmo United Methodist Church
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Location	Chattanooga, Tennessee
Coordinates	34°59′43″N 85°16′49″W / 34.99528°N 85.28028°W / 34.99528; -85.28028
Built	1885
Architect	Various
Architectural style	Victorian and Victorian bungalow
NRHP reference No.	82003976
Added to NRHP	April 4, 1992[1]

The St. Elmo Historic District, or St. Elmo for short, is a neighborhood in the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is situated in the southernmost part of Hamilton County within the valley of Lookout Mountain below the part of the Tennessee River known as Moccasin Bend. St Elmo is at the crossroads of two ancient Indian trails, and was first occupied by Native American hunters and gatherers in the Woodland period, then agricultural Mississippians, including Euchee and Muscogee, and for a brief period between 1776 and 1786, the Cherokees in a community called Lookout Town. St. Elmo became part of the city of Chattanooga when it was annexed in September 1929.

Hundreds of properties in the neighborhood were listed on the National Register in 1982, and in 1996 St. Elmo was designated a Local Historic District. Many of the buildings from the late 19th and early 20th century have been preserved. A St. Elmo resident is an 'Elmoian'.