Roaring Spring Historic District

	Roaring Spring Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Roaring Spring Historic District, May 2008
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Location	Roughly bounded by Barley, Lower, Walnut, Roosevelt, California, Hickory, Fairview, Sugar and N. Main Sts., Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°20′5″N 78°23′56″W / 40.33472°N 78.39889°WCoordinates: 40°20′5″N 78°23′56″W / 40.33472°N 78.39889°W
Area	233 acres (94 ha)
Built	1867
Built by	Roaring Spring Planing Mill Co.
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.	95000133
Added to NRHP	March 3, 1995

Roaring Spring Historic District is a national historic district located at Roaring Spring, Blair County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 573 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Roaring Spring. The earliest buildings date to the 1860s, when the community was founded as the region's first paper mill town. The buildings are primarily frame and brick, with notable examples of Colonial Revival and Queen Anne style architecture. Notable non-residential buildings include the Odd Fellows Hall (1882), Hite's Furniture Store (c. 1888), Roaring Spring Bank (1902), old Borough Building and Fire Station (1906), Zook Building (c. 1885), Bare Memorial Church of God (1889-1930), Trinity United Methodist Church (1898), Blank Book Company buildings, and Roaring Spring Passenger Station (c. 1905). Also located in the district are the Bare Memorial Fountain (1937) and Greenlawn Cemetery and Memorial Park.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.^[1]

References[]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Frederick L. Richards (July 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Roaring Spring Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-05.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[arch-2] "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Frederick L. Richards (July 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Roaring Spring Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-05.

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