The Tamaqua Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Schuylkill Township and Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

This district includes 944 contributing buildings, three contributing sites, eight contributing structures, and three contributing objects that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Tamaqua.

The residential buildings principally date to the early twentieth century and are mostly two-story structures of brick and frame construction that were designed in a variety of popular architectural styles, including Queen Anne, Late Victorian, Italianate, and Colonial Revival.

Notable non-residential buildings include the Little Schuylkill Hotel (1827), White Swan (c. 1845), Washington House (c. 1842-1850), Shepp Building, Elks Lodge, Peoples Trust Company Building (c. 1915), Tamaqua National Bank (1908), First National Bank of Tamaqua (1905, 1919), U.S. Post Office (1932), Majestic Theater and Hotel, Hegarty Blacksmith Shop (1848), Conrad Biscoff Planing Mill and Furniture Factory (1865), Tamaqua Manufacturing Company (1910), Calvary Episcopal Church (1851), First Methodist Church (1852), St. Jerome's Roman Catholic Church (1856), American Hose Company (1881), East End Fire Co. (1923), and the former Tamaqua Armory.

The contributing sites are St. Jerome's Cemetery (c. 1837), Odd Fellows Cemetery (1865), and the foundation of the Fitzpatrick Shirt Factory (1888). Contributing structures include three runs of iron steps and five bridges.

Located in the district and separately listed are the Anthracite Bank Building, George Ormrod House, and Tamaqua station.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

• "What is the Tamaqua Historic District?" at Tamaqua website