Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District

	Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Memorial on the Gettysburg Battlefield to the 111th New York Infantry, February 2012
Location	Adams County, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°48′59″N 77°13′49″W
Area	~11,000 acres (4,500 ha)
Architectural style	Colonial (1776 tavern), Neoclassical (1797 hotel),; Vernacular (1815 academy); Federal (1815 house),; Greek Revival (1837 "edifice"),; Italianate (1855 gatehouse),; Gothic Revival (1862 home),; Queen Anne (1883 house); Romanesque (1889 hall),; Castellated tower (1889 monument); Box truss (1895 observatory; Beaux-Arts (1906 bank); Parkitecture (1933 station), ; Art deco (1938 armory); Modernist (1962 museum)
MPS	Battle of Gettysburg MPS
NRHP reference No.	75000155
Added to NRHP	March 19, 1975

The Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District is a district of contributing properties and over 1000 historic contributing structures and 315 historic buildings, located in Adams County, Pennsylvania. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 19, 1975. Most of the contributing elements of the Gettysburg Battlefield are on the protected federal property within the smaller Gettysburg National Military Park.

Historic structures include the Battle of Gettysburg monuments and memorials. Historic buildings range from a 1776 Colonial tavern to a vacant 1962 Modernist museum (Demolished in 2013). Contributing structures include postbellum artifacts such as the 1895 Big Round Top Observation Tower Foundation Ruin, the 1893 Electric Trolley Bed, and the only remaining Tipton Boundary Marker.

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