Chelsea Commercial Historic District

The Chelsea Commercial Historic District comprises the core of Chelsea's historic commercial district. Near the north end of the district are the Norfolk Southern Railroad tracks, historically part of the Michigan Central Railroad. The district focuses on Main Street (state highway M-52), and includes properties on either side containing historic commercial, public, and institutional buildings. Also included are properties on Park Street, East and West Middle Streets, Jackson Street, and the former Glazier Stove Works complex in the northeast end of the district. The building stock (ranging from the 1850s to the 1980s) consists primarily of two-story brick commercial buildings, the greatest number of these being Italianate. There is visual unity along Main Street, owing to the relatively uniform building heights and the repetition of decorative window hood moldings on the corridor's buildings. The district contains sixty-one buildings, of which fifty-six are contributing.