Mount Pleasant Historic District (Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania)

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Mount Pleasant Historic District
Main Street Mount Pleasant Pa 2011.jpg
Main Street, August 2011
Mount Pleasant Historic District (Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania) is located in Pennsylvania
Mount Pleasant Historic District (Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania)
LocationRoughly along Main, S. Church, Eagle, Walnut and College Sts., Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°08′54″N 79°32′41″W / 40.14833°N 79.54472°W / 40.14833; -79.54472Coordinates: 40°08′54″N 79°32′41″W / 40.14833°N 79.54472°W / 40.14833; -79.54472
Area65 acres (26 ha)
ArchitectBowers, Robert; et al.
Architectural styleItalianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.98000903[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 23, 1998

Mount Pleasant Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 268 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing object in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Mount Pleasant. They were built between about 1812 and 1948, and includes a mix of residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial properties. They are in a variety of popular architectural styles including Italianate, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival. Notable buildings include the Overholt General Store (c. 1860), harness shop (c. 1870), warehouse (c. 1880), East End Hotel (c. 1885), Grand Central Hotel (c. 1895), Gerechter Furniture Building (c. 1905), Citizens Savings and Trust Company and First National Bank (1905), Shupe Steam Grist Mill (1843), City Hall (1910), Penn Theater (1937), Reunion Presbyterian Church (1873), Wesley United Methodist Church (1856), Transfiguration Roman Catholic Church (1889), and three houses built about 1812. The contributing site is Frick Park. The district includes the separately listed Samuel Warden House and demolished Mount Pleasant Armory.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Clinton Piper (March 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Mount Pleasant Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-06-16.


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