The Starr Historical District is a residential district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located on the north side of Richmond, bounded by North A Street on the south, North E Street on the north, North 10th Street on the west, and North 16th Street on the east. The Hicksite Friends Meeting House is considered the focal Historical Society Museum. The Andrew F. Scott House has been occupied by the same family since its completion in 1860, and is considered to be nationally important as an example of Victorian house design.

The land on which the current district is situated was purchased from Jeremiah Cox by Charles and Elizabeth Starr, who settled in Richmond in 1825. The Starr family was influential in Richmond's early development and later owned Starr Piano, a leading manufactures of pianos, phonographs, and records.

Nearly half of the residents of the district were leaders in business and industry in the nineteenth century. After the Civil War, Richmond was Indiana's leading manufacturer of farm implements. The largest plant in Richmond was Gaar, Scott and Company, and its three owners built homes in the Starr district. Other manufactures, merchants, and bankers also constructed homes here, including Micajah Henley, inventor of the roller skate. The district represents the time period when Richmond and its business people were leading Indiana economic life.

The Starr Historical District is typical of an early Victorian neighborhood, including examples of residential architecture in the Italianate, Queen Anne, and Free Classic style, among others. Many of the residents were members of the Society of Friends, leading them to construct homes that were less ostentatious than their neighbors'. Prominent early residents who built homes in the Starr Historic District include John H. Johnson, Hiram Hadley, Washington I. Dulin, and George R. Williams. Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church was designed by Badgley and Nicklas from Ohio.

Wayne County Interim Report (pg. 82).