Monday 12/29/2008
Old Pottstown Historic District — as a 19th century producer of iron and steel, Pottstown played a significant role of the creation of this new America. The industrial buildings which fostered Pottstown's slice of prosperity have vanished, but the solid Victorian homes, storefronts and churches which industry made possible in Pottstown have survived. The Old Pottstown Historic District captures this rich architectural legacy, reflecting the achievements of our predecessors in the age of steam and steel. [Montgomery County, PA]

Sunday 12/28/2008
The School Lane Hills Historic District is an excellent example of early suburban development. The prime thrust of the suburban movement commenced about the end of the 1880's in the part of Lancaster Township on Marietta Avenue between President Avenue and West End Avenue. The construction of these large residential structures was most likely influenced by the streetcar line that ran out of Lancaster City and west on Marietta Avenue, providing easy accessibility to the city and downtown businesses. [Lancaster County, PA]

Friday 12/26/2008
Updated: Washington Park Historic District, Albany NY

Kirk's Mill Historic District — this small secluded village in southern Lancaster County was originally part of a patent granted to Edward Griest and Hughes in 1752. This area was involved in boundary disputes between William Penn and Lord Baltimore. Because of these disorders, Proclamations were issued by Penn and Baltimore in 1735, 1736 and 1737 which relieved persons living in the area from paying money into their respective land offices until the boundaries were settled. [ Little Britain Township]

Thursday 12/25/2008
Boiling Springs Historic District — Boiling Springs is a unique 18th century industrial settlement that became a 19th century provincial village; it developed at the site of a large spring-fed lake. The multi-layered history of this area revolves around its important water resources. In colonial times a grist mill and a significant industry of iron manufacture dominated the village. During pre Civil War times, Boiling Springs was a stop on the underground railroad system. [South Middleton Township, Cumberland County, PA]

Wednesday 12/24/2008
The East Main Street Historic District developed historically as a tree-lined residential corridor lined with stylish nineteenth century houses, a church, several large hotels near the Richfield Springs Village center, and the village water works at the extreme eastern end. The majority of these elements, including 31 historic residences, two historic boarding houses, a theatre, a post office, a former hotel and one church remain, constituting the body of the East Main Street Historic District. Many of the houses are complemented by contributing barns and outbuildings. At the western end, a park was developed in the early years of the twentieth century on the site of the Springs Hotel. [Otsego County, NY]

Tuesday 12/23/2008
The Rice's Landing Historic District occupies a narrow and level river terrace, precipitous hillslope, and level ridgetop adjacent to the Monongahela River in northeastern Greene County. Pumpkin Run, a deeply embedded tributary of the river, bisects the Rice's Landing Historic District which is composed of 63 buildings, five structures and four archaeological sites. This integrated community is dominated by vernacular buildings of one to two stories dating from the Mid-Victorian to Craftsman period. [Rice's Landing Borough]

Monday 12/22/2008
The Strode's Mill Historic District is an exemplary crossroads village of south central Chester County that provided services for a surrounding farming community. Of the dozens of small villages in this area which grew up at important 18th century intersections, Strode's Mill is one of the last to retain its 18th century configuration. [East Bradford Township]

Sunday 12/21/2008
The Marlborough Village Historic District lies at the intersection of Marlborough Spring Road and Marlborough Road in East Marlborough and Newlin Townships, Chester County. The village was founded and existed as a rural agrarian Quaker community reflecting social characteristics of that sect: education, social justice, simplicity, and ability and desire to locally express and act upon commitment to one's beliefs in order to bring about social change. The village schools, dwellings, and farmhouses continue to reflect the essence of an active, well established Quaker community from before the era of abolition through simply designed homes dating to the 1920s and 1930s.

Saturday 12/20/2008
The Springdale Historic District provides a good example of an early twentieth century, upper, middle-class suburb that developed during the period that marked the rise in popularity of the automobile. [City of York, York County, PA]

Friday 12/19/2008
The New Kensington Downtown Historic District is significant for its association with the aluminum manufacturing in Southwestern Pennsylvania from 1891 to 1947 and as an area where aluminum workers from the New Kensington Production Works lived and shopped. The district played a significant contribution to the growth of the manufacturing of aluminum in the United States. While Alcoa's manufacturing center grew, the commercial and residential center grew accordingly. Aluminum workers depended on commercial centers for food, drygoods, health related services, and recreation after they finished working for the day.
[New Kensington City, Westmoreland County PA]

Thursday 12/18/2008
Dating from ca.1850 to ca.1930, the South Peterboro Street Residential Historic District is an architecturally and historically significant concentration of residences and churches which together chronicle the development of one of the village's most fashionable nineteenth and early twentieth century residential enclaves.

Built between ca.1870 and ca.1920, the buildings of the South Peterboro Commercial Historic District chronicle the the village's commercial activity.
[Village of Canastota, Madison County, NY]

Wednesday 12/17/2008
The resources in the Hamilton Village Historic District represent the period between 1800 and 1930. The buildings were designed in a wide range of nineteenth and twentieth century architectural styles and are characterized by a high degree of integrity in design and materials.
[Village of Hamilton, Madison County, NY]

Tuesday 12/16/2008
The Cazenovia Village Historic District is an architecturally and historically significant concentration of residential, commercial, religious, civic, estate and industrial buildings which together reflect the historical development of the Village of Cazenovia.

The Albany Street Historic District (wholly contained within the boundaries of the Village District) is comprised of architecturally significant buildings on both sides of Albany Street, (U.S. Route 20), the main east-west thoroughfare of the village, and the significant structures on a number of side streets. This area adheres to the original village plan designed by John Lincklaen, Cazenovia's founder, and contains the highest concentration of significant nineteenth-century buildings in the village.
[Madison County, NY]

Sunday 12/14/2008
Marshallton Historic District — through more than 200 years of its history, Marshallton's focus has been on Strasburg Road, and both literally and figuratively its growth has paralleled the road's. With its integrity of setting and well preserved collection of buildings representing a variety of historic uses, Marshallton today conveys a clear, sense of the past — when the Strasburg Road was a primary transportation route and, capitalizing on its location, the village functioned as a rural service center for both travelers and nearby farmers.
[West Bradford Township, Chester County, PA]

Saturday 12/13/2008
Cottage Lawn designed in 1849 by Alexander Jackson Davis, this historic resource is significant for its architectural statement and for its association with the early history and economy of the city of Oneida. This unaltered cottage is a superb example of the Gothic movement's principles of antiquity and domesticity through quiet tones and restraint of design.

The DeFerriere Residence is significant as a highly intact example of a Greek Revival residence built in the first half of the nineteenth century in rural Madison County. It contains a carriage barn disguised within the footprint of the building, making it one of the most unusual buildings of the period in the vicinity.
[City of Oneida, NY]

Friday 12/12/2008
The Main-Broad-Grove Streets Historic District is significant as a remarkably intact collection of nineteenth to early twentieth century residences reflecting the varied architectural styles in the period. As the home of Oneida's most prominent citizens, the residential neighborhood reflects the city's development from an agricultural community in the 1830's to a bustling commercial center in the early twentieth century. [Madison County, NY]

Thursday 12/11/2008
The Warwick Mills complex includes a late-eighteenth century stone grist mill, an early nineteenth century stone manor house and a small early nineteenth century stone tenant house which is located near the mill. It was probably intended as a dwelling for a mill operator. The grist mill was probably built by Jacob Winance (also spelled Winands or Winings) between 1783 and 1785. The date is determined by reference to his tax records. In addition to owning the mill, Jacob Winance was an ironmaster. [Warwick Township, Chester County, PA]

Wednesday 12/10/2008
The Lahr Farm — the stone house was probably built at least in part by Philip and James Filman, for they lived there 30 years. David Potts, Jr. purchased the farm from the Filmans in 1830, and 4 years later it came into the possession of Joseph Lahr, together "with houses, outhouses, buildings, barns, stables, ways, woods, water courses, etc." The farm remained in the possession of the Lahr family until 1938.
[Warwick Township, Chester County, PA]

Erie PA, Near West Side
We recently had occasion to enjoy an extended visit on 10th Street in Erie. The character of the neighborhood homes was so inviting we took walks and, during those walks, some photographs. As we find occasion to spend more time in Erie, we continue to be pleasantly surprised by all it has to offer. A longtime Erie resident recently proclaimed to us, "Erie has Everything ... including dependable winter weather." Thus far, having discovered Presque Isle, the Blasco Memorial Library, various local eateries, historic districts, and some of that winter weather ... we heartily agree. We'll be back from time to time for more discovery outings. Here's a partial look at what surprised and impressed us during our most-recent (December 2008) trip: residences along Cherry, West 9th and West 10th Streets.

• Cherry Street
• West 10th Street
• West 9th Street

For a complete set of links to what we've discovered about Erie (so far), see: Erie City — and be sure to check for more from time to time because we'll be back.

Monday 12/08/2008
Updates: —Emlenton Borough and Emlenton Historic District.
[Venango County, PA]

Sunday 11/30/2008
Updates: — Centre County, PA
Centre Hall Borough
Port Matilda Borough
Harris Township
Oak Hall Historic District
Linden Hall Historic District

Saturday 11/29/2008
John Woods House — John Woods (1758-1816), as a well-to-do political leader and member of a prominent founding Pittsburgh family, played a locally significant role in the Whiskey Rebellion. As part of the Neville connection, a group of socially and politically prominent residents of the Pittsburgh area, he is representative of the Federalist leanings of Pittsburgh, the commercial heart of southwestern Pennsylvania in 1794. [Allegheny County, PA]

Friday 11/28/2008
Historic Ebensburg Homes
Although the architect and builder are unknown, the Ancenitus William (A.W.) Buck House is significant as an example of high style residential Queen Anne architecture. It retains a high degree of architectural integrity in both interior and exterior features. It is one of Ebensburg's best preserved Victorian mansions dating from the turn of the century.

The Philip Noon House has been closely associated for a century and a half with events and personalities of local, national and international significance. Its builder was a key figure in the founding and settlement of Cambria County and Philip Collins, the second occupant, was a pioneer railroad builder of world renown.

Thursday 11/27/2008
Updated: Boalsburg Historic District, Centre County PA

The College Hill Residential Historic District is an historically and architecturally significant area of Easton. It is the most extensive single collection of varying mid to late Victorian residential architecture within the Lehigh Valley Region. College Hill was the principal residential area for the successful industrial and merchant class families within the city during the later 19th and through the early 20th centuries. [Northampton County, PA]

Wednesday 11/26/2008
Mercersburg Historic District — Believed to have been settled during the second and third quarters of the 18th century, Mercersburg was laid out as a town in 1786. It was named for General Hugh Mercer a Revolutionary War officer and doctor who lived near the town. [Mercersburg  Borough, Franklin County, PA]

Tuesday 11/25/2008
Elmwood Park Historic District — Elmwood Park is the first large, private suburban residential project in Bethlehem created consistent in construction, material, scale, and style. As such, it marks the beginning of large-scale, unified housing developments in Bethlehem and its suburbs. It is the first expression of a trend toward such projects that began in Eastern Pennsylvania in the late 19th century. It was built in 1917 as part of the residential expansion needed to house workers of the growing Bethlehem Steel Company. The company, which produced arms during World War I, increased its work force from 11,000 in 1914 to 28,000 in 1917. [Northampton County, PA]

Monday 11/24/2008
Alexandria Borough, located in Huntingdon County just off Route 22, (along side the Pennsylvania Canal and the Juniata River) was incorporated in 1827.

The Slatington Historic District — beginning with the name of the municipality — possesses close historical ties to the Pennsylvania slate industry, which produced roofing slate, blackboards, school slates, and mantles throughout more than one-half of the nineteenth century and into the early decades of the twentieth century. [Slatington Borough, Lehigh County, PA]

Sunday 11/23/2008
Cement City Historic District — The houses of Cement City were built to meet the needs of middle management workers of the American Steel and Wire Company in Donora, Pennsylvania. Cement City is a successful example of a project undertaken by a large company to provide workers with affordable, sanitary, fireproof housing. The name "Cement City" is actually a misnomer since it is neither cement or a city; the houses are actually built of concrete. [Washington County]

Saturday 11/22/2008
Scenery Hill Historic District As the location of several taverns, tradesmen's shops, and other facilities, Scenery Hill played a significant role in supporting the first major route to the Old Northwest. Although the use of the National Road declined after the completion of the B & O Railroad in 1853, Scenery Hill survived as a small commercial center for the surrounding agricultural and mining region. [North Bethlehem Township, Washington County, PA]

Friday 11/21/2008
The Monterey Historic District comprises about 250 acres in the Blue Ridge Summit area of Washington Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The district is a fine example of a 19th century summer resort community and the gracious ambience of the Victorian era. The properties and lanes were laid out around 1890, in the picturesque or "English" informal setting. Although the architecture reflects a nostalgic appeal for the old, vernacular "colonial" architecture, the style should be called transitional — symmetry and colonial forms combined with many picturesque qualities and details. During the 1880's, many people were reacting to life in the cities, and Monterey reflects a desire to create an ideal seasonal colony, far from factories and commerce.

Thursday 11/20/2008
The Greencastle Historic District which includes the original plat of the town laid out in 1782, reflects the community's early history with numerous buildings dating from the 1780-1820 period. Particularly notable among these are excellent examples of the Federal style embodied in brick buildings which served throughout their history both residential and commercial functions. [Greencastle Borough, Franklin County, PA]

Wednesday 11/19/2008
Byers Station Historic District — Located within the rolling farmland of Upper Uwchlan Township, northern Chester County, is Byers Station (also known as Byers Village, Byerstown, or Toddyville). It consists of a concentration of intact buildings arranged in a linear pattern along Byers Road near its intersection with Eagle Farms Road and Senn Drive.

Tuesday 11/18/2008
Taylorstown Historic District — this rural village in western Washington County, Pennsylvania, retains its original size and scale as set forth in its 1795 town plan, and has a fairly intact architectural fabric made up of buildings from several different architectural periods. [Blaine Township]

Monday 11/10/2008
The Beallsville Historic District is significant as an intact pike town in southwestern Pennsylvania and for its association with the history of commerce and transportation on the National Road. [Beallsville Borough]

Sunday 11/09/2008
The East Washington Historic District is one of the richest and most intact collections of fashionable turn-of-the-20th-century buildings in southwestern Pennsylvania where simple vernacular buildings are the rule both in urban/industrial areas and on the farmstead. The District is a physical expression of the profound shift from the agricultural to the industrial, and from the traditional to the stylish.

The Marianna Historic District is part of an extensive commercial coal plant constructed between 1906 and 1912. It is the best preserved example in Washington County of a company-built coal mining town, a phenomenon found throughout the Appalachian coal fields, and is an artifact of a movement among coal operators to improve living conditions. [East Washington and Marianna Boroughs]

Friday 11/07/2008
A. Oscar Martin, Architect, Bucks County PA, 1873-????


West Alexander Historic District — the historic significance of the district's buildings arises principally from the fact that this one-street town was once a stopping point on the National Pike, our nation's first federally funded highway. [West Alexander Borough, Washington County, PA]

In the West Middletown Historic District, remnants are everywhere of a time when home and business shared a common structure; when transportation meant horse and buggy; when self-sufficiency ruled; and all of life's necessities, and a few frivolities, were a stroll away. [West Middletown Borough, Washington County, PA]

Thursday 11/06/2008
The College Avenue Historic District retains a high degree of historic architectural integrity and it is this integrity and the inclusion of the oldest residences in the larger College Hill neighborhood that visually distinguishes it from adjacent streetscapes. [Topeka City, Shawnee County, KS]

Wednesday 11/05/2008
Yardley Historic District — Yardley began as an 18th century ferry crossing on the Delaware River and developed rapidly after the construction of the Delaware Canal through the village. The Yardley Historic District has excellent examples of architecture ranging from the early 18th century to the early 20th century. This includes Gothic Revival, Federal and Queen Anne architecture, as well as Georgian, Greek Revival, Stick, Italianate, Second Empire, Four Square, Colonial Revival and Bungalow/Craftsman styles. The period of significance for Yardley spans the early 18th to the early 20th century (c.1728 to c.1925). [Bucks County, PA]

Tuesday 11/04/2008
The Williamsburg Historic District accurately conveys an architectural sense of the town's commercial and architectural development through this 144-year period of local history (ca. 1800-1944). [Williamsburg Borough, Blair County, PA]

Monday 11/03/2008
Chalfont Historic District is located in Central Bucks County near the confluence of the west and north branches of the Neshaminy Creek. Chalfont initially developed as a small village at the intersection of the Limekiln Pike (North Main Street/State Route 152) and the road from Norristown to Doylestown (Butler Avenue/U.S. Route 202). [Chalfont Borough, PA]

Sunday 11/02/2008
New Geneva Historic District — although officially laid out in 1797 by Albert Gallatin, a smaller town had been planned there by William George Wilson in 1793. Named for Gallatin's home town of Geneva, Switzerland, he envisioned the town as a cultural and industrial center for refugees of the French Revolution. [Nicholson Township, Fayette County PA]

Saturday 11/01/2008
Impressions of Philadelphia
Italian Market Area — and so the ancient saying goes: "as much as things change, they sometimes stay the same."

Friday 10/31/2008
The Windber Historic District is associated with the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company and through it with the important Pennsylvania bituminous coal mining industry. Berwind-White, one of the nation's preeminent independent producers of coal, designed and built the model community of Windber beginning in 1897 to oversee its important western Pennsylvania mining operations. The historic district captures the town's carefully planned hierarchical design, which advertised the company and the town to the public, facilitated business operations, and reinforced the company's dominance and control. Architecturally, the town's size and planned nature, the extent of high-style buildings, and the size and quality of the worker housing makes Windber unique to the area. [Windber Borough, Somerset County, PA]

Thursday 10/30/2008
The Bradford Downtown Historic District contains the work of regionally prominent architects and builders such as E.N. Unruh, Enoch Curtis, Frederic Merrick, A.P. Mount, F.C. French, and William Hanley.
[City of Bradford, McKean County, PA]

Tuesday 10/28/2008
New Index: The Boroughs of Pennsylvania

The Wyalusing Borough Historic District's architectural significance centers on its concentration of buildings constructed between c.1840 and 1930 and representing styles including Italianate, Stick, Queen Anne, Classical Revival, Colonial Revival and post 1920 styles. Wyalusing's most unique buildings in the context of Bradford County [PA] were designed by architect/builder J. Morgan Brown, who developed a locally unusual approach to the Queen Anne style, using elaborate sawn elements to embellish wall surfaces, gable ends and porches.

Update: — The historic resources that survive today in the Mount Union Historic District were by and large constructed before 1920 following the early boom years of the Refractories Era and the First World War. [Mount Union Borough, Huntingdon County, PA]

Tuesday 10/21/2008
The Hollidaysburg Historic District comprises the majority of Hollidaysburg proper that was developed before the end of the 19th Century. The District contains a fine collection of pre-Civil War residential and commercial buildings and a broad range of Victorian houses, commercial buildings and government and religious structures. Many of these buildings reflect Hollidaysburg's political/governmental status; as county seat of Blair County, the town attracted a number of lawyers who became important jurists and political figures. Hollidaysburg's position as the transfer point between the Pennsylvania Canal and the Portage Railroad made it the gateway to the trans-Allegheny region and promoted industrial development in the town as well as making it a commercial center. Organized in 1836, Hollidaysburg Borough was most prominent in the period between 1830 and 1915.

Saturday 10/18/2008
Equinunk Historic District — the period of significance (1831, c.1940) begins with acquisition of Equinunk Manor and development of the village by Alexander Calder and Israel Chapman, and ends at the time when the commercial ventures mentioned in the MPDF had effectively ceased to function.

Milanville Historic District — Milanville is one of the most historically significant communities in the Delaware River Valley, the eighteenth century center of the Delaware Company's Cushetunk settlement. All vestiges of the Calkins Creek settlement were lost during the Revolution, when Indians and Tories raided and burned throughout the valley. However, a number of the original Delaware Company families — notably, the Skinners, Thomases, Calkins, and Tylers — returned and resettled the area. [Wayne County, PA]

Friday 10/17/2008
The Woodlawn Avenue Row (built in 1898; restored in the early 1980s) is architecturally significant as a highly detailed, well-crafted example of the Stick style of architecture. [Buffalo, NY]

Thursday 10/16/2008
The West Village Historic District is one of the oldest and most venerable residential neighborhoods in the city of Buffalo. Its street patterns and street names reflect the 1804 city plan of Joseph Ellicott as well as the angled thoroughfares that once belonged to the village of South Black Rock, an early settlement formed from the New York State Reservation that bordered the Niagara River.

Wednesday 10/15/2008
The Parkside East Historic District represents one of the earliest examples of Frederick Law Olmsted's pioneering work in the area of suburban residential planning, preceded only by his 1869 plan for Riverside Illinois, a planned suburb of Chicago. In Parkside, as in Riverside, Olmsted strove to provide an ideal residential environment, partaking of the aesthetic amenities of adjacent public parkland, while at the same time buffering the park's perimeter from incompatible development.

Tuesday 10/14/2008
Updated: Residential Subdivisions with Large Median Lot Size (2-plus acres)

Hamorton Historic District — A stalwart 19th century crossroads and commercial center, the village retains much of the architecture from its two major phases of development, the 19th century commercial boom, and the early 20th century expansion associated with Pierre Samuel DuPont's construction of employee housing for his adjacent Longwood Gardens. [Kennett Township, Chester County, PA]

Monday 10/13/2008
Trimbleville Historic District — Trimbleville is a beautifully situated hamlet along the Brandywine's West Branch whose history mirrors major themes in Chester County's history: settlement and occupation by a Quaker family; a prosperous mill seat for nearly 200 years; a five-generation family farm; location of a distinguished school; and a role in the 1777 Battle of Brandywine. [West Bradford Township]

Sunday 10/12/2008
Featured Residential Subdivision
Yardley Corners; 3-4 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath townhome sales and rentals; across from the Oxford Oaks shopping center, minutes from U.S. 1 and I-95.

Potwin Place Historic District — In 1888 Potwin Place was incorporated as a city during a time which Topeka was considering its annexation. As Potwin Place was quite prosperous, Topeka citizens resented the move; the sentiment was that Potwin's residents were making their money in Topeka but not spending it there. With its own utilities and a streetcar line making convenient runs into the city, it was felt that Potwin Place enjoyed "all the advantages and none of the disadvantages of a metropolis." Potwin Place was ultimately (1899) annexed. [Shawnee County, Topeka City, Kansas]

Saturday 10/11/2008
Mifflinburg Historic District — In the 1860s the horse-drawn vehicular industry in the village, limited prior to two or three shops, and possibly ten or twelve mechanics, gained momentum. Since almost every fair-sized village in the area had at least one wagon-carriage shop, and since iron and wood, and blacksmiths and woodworkers were commonplace, a specialization in a particular community would have appeared remote indeed. But it happened in Mifflinburg. [Union County, PA]

Friday 10/10/2008
The most significant date for the Damascus Historic District, and the beginning of the period of significance, is 1810, when the Turnpike was completed, connecting the village to Newburgh on the Hudson River and Great Bend on the Susquehanna River. It formed one of the important routes for pioneers moving westward and for farmers bringing goods and stock to eastern markets. [Damascus Township, Wayne County, PA]

Thursday 10/09/2008
Active Adult/55-plus Neighborhood Upadates
Buckingham Springs, and Flowers Mill.

The Jacob Winings House is a well-preserved example of a typical Chester County farmhouse of the late 18th century. Jacob Winings, an ironmaster, purchased the property in 1783 from Thomas Rutter and Samuel Potts. According to local tradition, the house's history antedates the 1783 sale of the property to Winings, and it served as a hospital for wounded Continental soldiers.

Philip Rogers House — One of the earliest settlers in the area, Rogers was on the first list of taxables for East Nantmeal Township in 1722. The house is now in Warwick Township which was formed by the division of East Nantmeal in 1842.

Wednesday 10/08/2008
The John Knauer House and Mill reflect the enterprise and long standing influence of the Knauer family in Upper Chester County. Built by the son of German immigrant Johann Christopher Knauer, the mill was one of four 18th century corn or grist mills on Upper French Creek and was the center of Knauer family enterprises until the late 19th century. Architecturally, the John Knauer House provides a fine local example of late 18th century construction.

Tuesday 10/07/2008
The Ligonier Historic District is architecturally significant for its excellent collection of historic resources dated ca. 1790-1944, and represents a rare continuum of successive periods of history. [Ligonier Borough]

Monday 10/06/2008
The Scottdale Historic District — has many examples of both high style and vernacular architecture vernacular architecture spanning its period of significance, ca. 1853‑1950.
[Scottdale Borough, Westmoreland County, PA]

Sunday 10/05/2008
The Greensboro Historic District expresses its commercial/industrial history through its architecture. There are representative examples of each period of development in this district from the vernacular central chimney, two-room plan houses of the early nineteenth century to the popular Bungalows of the early twentieth century. Few, if any, southwestern Pennsylvania towns can boast the range of architecture from its period of settlement to the twentieth century as can be found in Greensboro. This was largely due to the fact that there was no large scale development in the twentieth century. [Greensboro Boro, Greene County, PA]

Saturday 10/04/2008
Salem Crossroads Historic District — Delmont, Pennsylvania, formerly known as Salem Crossroads, was located on the Northern Pike stage route between Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. The town developed around a large spring, (that still runs today) which provided water for the travelers' horses. Passengers spent the night at the Central Hotel, which is still standing, before traveling on to Pittsburgh the following day. The community thrived from 1830 until 1870 when its importance and prosperity were diminished by the railroad.

Friday 10/03/2008
Ivy Mills Historic District — In 1726, Thomas Willcox, an English immigrant and skilled papermaker, constructed a mill dam across Chester Creek with another local resident, Thomas Brown. Soon afterward, a paper mill was erected and in 1729 the first paper produced at the site was marketed. The paper mill was one of the first 3 to operate in the American colonies. [Concord Township, Delaware County, PA]

Thursday 10/02/2008
Coudersport Historic District — Although present-day Coudersport displays the fabric of the Victorian era, the town actually began to be settled in the early 1800s. [Coudersport Borough, Potter County, PA]

Update: Roaring Spring Historic District, [Roaring Spring Borough, Blair County, PA]

Wednesday 10/01/2008
The Bear Creek Village Historic District's contributing resources consists of houses and workers' cottages, outbuildings, auxiliary buildings, churches, cemeteries, a dam and lake, and industrial remains associated with the 19th and early 20th century lumbering and ice industries founded by Albert Lewis. [Boro of Bear Creek Village]

Although the design of Henderson-Metz House is not taken literally from any of Andrew Jackson Downing's publications or other pattern books available at that time, the choice of style was obviously influenced by these publications.

The Moreland-Hoffstot House is a fine example of early 20th century Victorian architecture. The basic form of the house, the Grande Trianon at Versailles, had been used by McKim, Mead, and White.
[Pittsburgh, PA]

Tuesday 09/30/2008
Stoddartsville Historic District — Stoddartsville was founded by John Stoddart, an early investor in the Easton-Wilkes Barre Turnpike Company which crossed the river to the north of the location of the village prior to 1812. [The district straddles the Lehigh River and is therefore located in both Buck Township, Luzerne County and Tobyhanna Township, Monroe County PA.]

Monday 09/29/2008
The Revloc Historic District reflects many characteristics of a typical planned bituminous coal mining community in Pennsylvania where the company provided for educational, religious, residential, social and/or commercial needs. [Cambria County, PA]

Pennsylvania Home Prices At-A-Glance — approximate median asking prices for nearly 400 areas across Pennsylvania.

Sunday 09/28/2008
Updated: Index to 55-plus (Active Adult) Communities

Pennsylvania Architecture — an overview of building and architecture in the state ca. 1680-1940.

Pennsylvania Forges and Furnaces — early bloomeries in Pennsylvania were very like the Catalan forge which originated in Catalonia, Spain, about the tenth century.

Reading Furnace Historic District — begun as an iron furnace in 1736, this property was developed as a farm in the early nineteenth century and then remodeled as the country estate of Arthur Pew in 1936.

The history of Warwick Furnace Farms forms a significant part of the history of the early iron industry in the colony and later the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and of the families Nutt, Rutter, Savage and Potts who were its pioneers and later its leaders.

Warrenpoint was built in 1756,most probably by William Branson. He was a leader in colonial iron and steel production, two local industries which were of great national significance. He was closely associated with the Warwick and Redding iron furnaces, Coventry Forge, and the Vincent Steelworks, which are all located near Warrenpoint in Chester County.

Welkinweir is a locally significant example of a 20th century gentleman's estate in Chester County.

Thomas Bull, great grandson of the Bull family which came to Pennsylvania from Radmorshire, Wales, purchased a tract of 515 acres from Thomas Rutter and Samuel Potts in 1783.

Saturday 09/27/2008
Villages at Pennridge, age-restricted (active-adult, 55-plus) subdivision of detached, single family residences by Canon Homes ca. 2002. [see also: Active Adult Communities Index]

Friday 09/26/2008
The Coatesville Historic District is important as western Chester County's principal commercial center and a locally noteworthy collection of architecture. As a result of the growth of the iron and steel industry, Coatesville became one of the largest commercial centers in the county. [City of Coatesville]

The Parkside West Historic District is historically and architecturally significant for its association with Frederick Law Olmsted's 1876 Parks and Parkway Plan for the city of Buffalo as well as for its outstanding collection of eclectic residential architecture from the 1920's and 1930's. Olmsted's planned Parkside sub-division, together with Parkside East, illustrate the Olmsted's work in suburban residential planning. [City of Buffalo, Erie County, NY]

Thursday 09/25/2008
Allentown Historic District — The name "Allentown" has only been used for the area in the past twenty years as the residents have tried to foster an awareness of the distinct history of this neighborhood. Allentown developed essentially as a streetcar suburb of the city after the Civil War.

Wednesday 09/24/2008
Delaware Avenue Historic District — "The Delaware Avenue of my early days was the champion residential street of the United States. Delaware Avenue that mattered began at Niagara Square with the house of Millard Fillmore and ended at Gates Circle..." (Anson C. Goodyear, Delaware Ave resident, writing in the early 20th century.)

Tuesday 09/23/2008
Update: Among the more attractive of the Pennsylvania county towns is Bedford Borough; see also the Bedford Historic District. [Bedford County]

The West Side Historic District is significant as an intact representation of the history of community planning, social organization and architectural expression in the residential community created by the permanent population of Saratoga Springs during the nineteenth century.

The Union Avenue Historic District encompasses a remarkably homogeneous group of splendid late nineteenth-century mansions associated with the period of prosperity engendered by the Race Track. This district also fostered the early development of Skidmore College.

Monday 09/22/2008
Charlton Historic District — The Kayaderosserus Patent, which included the Town of Charlton, was created in 1770. To defray the cost of the survey, a parcel of land consisting of 5,000 acres was set aside. The northern boundary of this "5,000 Acre Tract" ran along the present Main Street (Charlton Road) in the hamlet of Charlton. [Saratoga County]

Sunday 09/21/2008
The Round Lake Historic District contains a notable collection of late 19th century structures which are remarkably homogeneous due to the fact that most were built within a brief time span. [Village of Round Lake, Saratoga County, N.Y.]

Saturday 09/20/2008
The Rich-Twinn Octagon House, built in 1849, is a rare and extremely early surviving example of the Octagon style in Western New York. The style was popularized by Orson S. Fowler during the mid-nineteenth century. [Village of Akron, Erie County, NY]

Erie County NY New/Updated: Villages of Kenmore, Depew, and Alden.

Friday 09/19/2008
Moxham Historic District — In 1887, The Johnson Company (est. 18831, relocated to what later became Moxham. The company became America's leading producer of steel trackwork for street railroad systems between 1888 and the turn of the century.

Thursday 09/18/2008
The Old Conemaugh Borough Historic District is a well preserved working class neighborhood of several hundred vernacular working class houses with several Victorian era mansions, a neighborhood business district, and several institutional landmarks.

The Minersville Historic District is significant as a notable concentration of vernacular dwellings, including company-built housing. Cambria Iron Works became one of the nation's leading iron producers by the 1870s and directed immigrant workers to Minersville where it built scores of company houses.

Cambria City Historic District — When the Cambria Iron Company (formerly Bethlehem Steel Corp., today [2008] Johnstown American Industries) was established in 1852, Cambria City was one of the major neighborhoods laid out to house immigrant laborers who worked the mills and mines. Cambria City became home to successive waves of immigrants who developed a variety of distinctive ethnic institutions including churches, schools and associations.
[City of Johnstown, Cambria County, PA]

Wednesday 09/17/2008
Revised and Expanded
The Doylestown Historic District comprises the majority of Doylestown Borough developed before 1930. Situated in the central part of Bucks County Pennsylvania, Doylestown has served as the county seat since 1813.

Tuesday 09/16/2008
"A fine turn-of-the-century Main Street ... 20th century that is"
High quality intact three to four story brick commercial structures built in the Romanesque, Italianate and Second Empire styles characterize the East Carson Street Historic District.

The industrial boom that made Pittsburgh the steel center of America in the years after the Civil War sparked a housing boom needed for the immigrant and native laborers who were attracted to the area. In Pittsburgh's neighboring city, Allegheny, (now part of Pittsburgh following annexation in 1907) the flat sections near the Ohio and Allegheny Rivers were built-up by the last decades of the 19th century, and development began in the ravines and on the hillsides above the older parts of the city. Three concentrations of speculative housing were built in "Pleasant Valley" in the mid-1880's. Two of the complexes survive. The Brightridge Street and Charles Street Rowhouses.

Update: James-Lorah House, Doylestown, PA

Monday 09/15/2008
HOMES FOR SALE
5 bedrooms, 3-1/2 baths located in the West Wynd Subdivision in Northampton Township, Bucks County PA

4 bedrooms, 3-1/2 baths located in the Eagles Mere Subdivision in Middletown Township, Bucks County PA

Sunday 09/14/2008
3 Pittsburgh Historic Districts
The Alpha Terrace Historic District was built as speculative housing in 1889 and 1894, the two complementary rows which comprise the district form Pittsburgh's best multi-unit example of flamboyant Victorian era row housing.

The Dutchtown (Deutschtown) Historic District buildings date primarily from the 1860's to the 1880's, and the street patterns, density and housing styles exhibit mid-19th century integrity.

The Manchester Historic District retains much of its Victorian architecture and represents an important period in the growth and development of the City of Pittsburgh.

Update — State College, PA, including Camelot, ca. 1920s, Centre Furnace Mansion, ca. 1830, and the College Heights Historic District.

Saturday 09/13/2008
The John O'Hara House, built prior to 1870 by David C. Yuengling, prosperous Pottsville brewer, is a three story, three bay wide stone building whose Mahantongo Street facade has been faced with a scored, smooth finish.

The Joseph Priestley House, in Northumberland Borough, Pennsylvania, was built by the chemist and served as his home from 1794 until his death in 1804.

The Priestley-Forsyth Memorial Library (also known as the Dr. Joseph Priestley House) was originally part of the tract of land called "Sarah's Delight," in the general plan of the borough of Northumberland.

Friday 09/12/2008
Mechanicsburg Borough — Because of its location, at the junction of two major east-west Cumberland County roads and because the Cumberland Valley Railroad was extended to Mechanicsburg in 1837, the borough became an important commercial center in the county by the middle of the nineteenth century. The Mechanicsburg Commercial Historic District reflects the economic growth and prosperity of the borough and the district survives as an excellent example of provincial commercial development of the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Thursday 09/11/2008
The Spring Grove Historic District has an overall integrity, architectural variety and sense of scale projecting a good representation of a late 19th century, one industry (paper mill) town. [Spring Grove Borough, York County, PA]

Wednesday 09/10/2008
The Lititz (Borough) Moravian Historic District is significant as the third planned Moravian settlement in the State of Pennsylvania, as the only town in Lancaster County founded as a Moravian community, and as one of only two communities in Lancaster County which may be regarded as an outgrowth of a distinct religious community. Three National Register Homes are located within the district: the John Augustus Sutter House, the William Werner House, and the Julius Stugis Pretzel House.

Tuesday 09/09/2008
The Shippensburg Historic District has numerous intact structures representing a wide range of architectural styles. [Shippensburg Boro, Cumberland County, PA]

The Old Uptown Harrisburg Historic District was developed rapidly to serve a greatly expanding population in Harrisburg, particularly of merchants, professionals and service related business people. [Dauphin County, PA]

Monday 09/08/2008
Kingston, Ulster County, NY

• The Kingston City Hall, ca. 1872, sits on an elevation almost twenty feet above the main thoroughfare, reflecting the prosperity of the 19th century.
• The Stockade District is a section of the city laid out as a Dutch village in the mid-seventeenth century.
• The Clinton Avenue Historic District is located within the original Kingston stockade erected in 1654 by Peter Stuyvesant.

Sunday 09/07/2008
The Neff Round Barn ca. 1910 is architecturally significant and an important Centre County landmark.

Boroughs of Lycoming County, PA

Saturday 09/06/2008
Median Asking Prices (single family homes) for all 67 Pennsylvania County Seats.

The old Mifflin County Courthouse has occupied its location on the square since 1842. Constructed in the Greek Revival style, the building is an impressive monument to an earlier era.

The McCoy House, ca. 1839, was constructed in the Federal style. It is a 2-1/2 story brick and frame townhouse with a gable roof, cornice trim, and a double chimney linked at the base, [Lewistown Borough, Mifflin County, PA]

Friday 09/05/2008
Petersburg Borough was incorporated in 1830 and named for Dr. Peter Schoenberger who platted the town in 1795.

Sunday 08/31/2008
Updates Pennsylvania Boros: Bradford, Clarion and Tioga Counties.

Friday 08/29/2008
The Schuylkill River town of Port Clinton was laid out on land owned by Lenhard Rishel; it was incorporated as a borough in 1850. [Schuylkill County, PA]

Benjamin B. Leas House, ca. 1850 — Leas came from a prominent German family that settled in the Shirleysburg area in 1829. He and his brother, William B., were involved in tanning and mercantile businesses. Both had interest in the then developing Pennsylvania railroad systems. Benjamin was appointed as a commissioner to The Pennsylvania Railroad in April 1846. [Shirleysburg Borough, Huntingdon County, PA]

Thursday 08/28/2008
Three National Register Homes in Bellefonte, Centre County PA
The McAllister-Beaver House is associated with two prominent county residents of the mid-1800's. Hugh N. McAllister, one of the founders of the Farmer's High School (Penn State), and James A. Beaver, former Governor of Pennsylvania.

The Miles-Humes House, ca. 1815, was built for Captain Joseph Miles, an ironmaster and co-founder (in 1793) of nearby Milesburg.

The William Thomas House consists of an L-shaped house ca. 1785 and a two story Georgian house ca. 1834. A third area was added in 1834 to tie together the new and the old.

Wednesday 08/27/2008
How the 67 Pennsylvania Counties Got Their Names

Tuesday 08/26/2008
The Linden Hall Historic District is architecturally significant as a well-preserved rural village constructed between 1810 and 1919 which grew around a grist mill in Harris Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.

Monday 08/25/2008
Curtin Village is a former ironmaster's plantation typical of those once found in the iron regions of Pennsylvania in the early part of the nineteenth century. It was a self-sustaining community which functioned for over a hundred years under the auspices of the Curtin family. [Boggs Township, Centre County PA]

Sunday 08/24/2008
The Boal Mansion and Museum is a complex of buildings and objects that are significant for their architecture, their two-century association with Pennsylvania Military History, and their connection to the historical development of Boalsburg Village and vicinity. [Harris Township, Centre County, PA]

Saturday 08/23/2008
The Oak Hall Historic District consists of the western portion of the small village of Oak Hall in College Township, Centre County PA.

Friday 08/22/2008
The Ag Hill Complex of the Pennsylvania State University, dating from circa 1900 to 1914, is a group of four buildings of absolute importance to the history of Penn State's agricultural program and to the history of campus architecture.

Thursday 08/21/2008
Two Historic State College Homes
The Centre Furnace Mansion (currently the home of the Centre County Historical Society) was originally built as a Georgian -style residence ca. 1830. It's located at the corner of East College Avenue and Porter Road.

Camelot — Camelot is a rambling two story house which, by virtue of its whimsical irregularity of design, romantic detailing, and landscaping, achieves an over-all storybook, or "fairytale" quality. It was designed by David A. Campbell, former Penn State professor it was inspired by English Wayside architecture. Begun in 1922, it took 15 years to complete.

Wednesday 08/20/2008
The Holmes-Foster/Highlands Historic District is a well-preserved example of suburban residential development associated with the beginnings of The Pennsylvania State University in 1855, and particularly with its growth and development from the 1890s to 1944. [Borough of State College, Centre County, PA]

Tuesday 08/19/2008
The College Heights Historic District of State College, Centre County, is an example of suburban residential development associated with the beginnings of The Pennsylvania State University in 1855, and particularly with its growth and development from the 1890s to 1944. [Borough of State College, Centre County, PA]

Monday 08/18/2008
The Welsh/Emery House is architecturally significant as a large farmhouse that evolved over several generations into an early twentieth century Classical Revival residence.

The Joseph Dorsey House defies exact description. It achieves its unique quality and charm from the fact that vernacular builders selectively borrowed Georgian, Roman Classical, Adamesque and other European Renaissance, architectural forms, elements and details, and combined them in the builders' own esoteric way.

Both of these homes are located in Centerville, Washington County PA; both are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Sunday 08/17/2008
The Philipsburg Historic District includes residential, commercial and institutional architecture in a variety of architectural styles from the early nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. It includes roughly one-third of Philipsburg Borough and a small section of neighboring Rush Township, both in Centre County.

Saturday 08/16/2008
The Lemont Historic District is a picturesque commercial village of the late nineteenth century. Its settlement history can be attributed to its location at the end of Nittany Mountain and at the crossroads of four major roads of early Centre County. [College Township]

Friday 08/15/2008
Unionville Historic District — the English cultural heritage of most early settlers is apparent in the vernacular house types built by local builders. The village was one of only two places in Centre County with strong Quaker influence which is reflected in the patterns, styles and character of the village. [Unionville Borough]

Thursday 08/14/2008
Millheim Historic District — The settlement of Millheim was part of the western land speculation movement of the late 1700s which resulted in the acquisition and development of much of the Pennsylvania land west of the Susquehanna River. [Millheim Borough, Centre County]

Wednesday 08/13/2008
Bellefonte Historic District — aspects of 19th century commercial, industrial, political, and residential life are memorialized in these buildings. The 18th century is expressed in the plan of the town, in certain names, and by virtue of the survival of the first house. [Bellfonte Borough, Centre County]

Tuesday 08/12/2008
Boalsburg Historic District — originally named Sprinfield, the village of Boalsburg was laid out by Andrew Stroup in 1809. Located at the intersection of Pennsylvania's major north-south and east-west roads the village was a major waystation for travelers and goods. [Harris Twp, Centre County]

Monday 08/11/2008
Coalport Historic District — the district is focused on a small business area on Main Street representative of the type of districts that were once found in the towns of similar size in the southern Clearfield area. The historic architectural styles found in this district are representative of the styles in the period of significance, (1869‑1946). [Coalport Borough, Clearfield County]

Sunday 08/10/2008
Village of Tuxedo Park — McKim, Mead and White, James Renwick, Jr., William A. Bates, James Brown Lord, Russell Sturgis, Wilson Eyre, William Lescaze, and Bruce Price, are a few of the architects whose work can still be seen with relatively few modifications. Eyre and Price have been frequently acknowledged as precursors to Frank Lloyd Wright. [Orange County, NY]

Saturday 08/09/2008
Allegheny West Historic District — during the late 19th century Ridge Avenue became the enclave of the new millionaire industrialists, among them Henry W. Oliver, William Penn Snyder, Harmar Denny, and Alexander M. Byers. Millionaires' Row, as it was called, possessed the most lavish townhouses in Pittsburgh, but few of these remain today. The surviving houses have been adapted to institutional or commercial use.

Friday 08/08/2008
The Thornburg Historic District has suffered few intrusions and remains intact as an isolated suburban community. Conceived along the lines of Bruce Price's Tuxedo Park in New York State, the ideal was a park-like preserve in which to build comfortable, sprawling homes, while maintaining accessibility to the commercial and social services of Pittsburgh. [Thornburg Boro, Allegheny County]

Mexican War Streets Historic District — by the late 19th and early 20th century, the area was a thriving middle class community. Most people owned their own property and the population consisted largely of Irish and German professional and working class families. The streets are named for battles of the Mexican War (1846-47). [Pittsburgh]

Saturday 08/02/2008
William Penn Villas, is an Active Adult (55‑plus) townhome development of twins, townhomes and detached singles built ca. 2001. [Limerick Township, Montgomery County, PA]

Friday 08/01/2008
Hersheys Mill, is a private, Active Adult (55‑plus) development of about 2‑dozen "villages" comprised of approximately 1,700 residences. This golf course community built by Wooldridge Builders and K. Hovnanian ca. 1974‑2001.

Hersheys Mill Estates (just across Greenhill Road from Hersheys Mill) is, a ca. 1983 subdivision of detached, single family homes.
[East Goshen Township, Chester County, PA]

Thursday 07/31/2008
The Calhoun Street Bridge crosses the Delaware River connecting Morrisville PA and Trenton NJ. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Wednesday 07/30/2008
Silver Lake Academy House is a private, Active Adult (55-plus), condominium development in Clayton Borough, Gloucester County, NJ. The condos are an adaptive reuse of the former elementary/high-school complex.

Sunday 07/27/2008
The Gatherings is a new Active Adult (55-plus) community of 2-3 bedroom, single family homes in East Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, NJ.

Friday 07/25/2008 Neighborhood Update
Eagles Mere is a subdivision of 46 detached, single family homes built by DeLuca Homes ca. 1988. [Middletown Twp, Bucks County]

Saturday 07/19/2008 Neighborhood Updates
Upper Makefield Twp — Jericho Mountain Estates, Laurel Brook, Windy Hollow, Meadow Wood
Wrightstown Twp — Deerfield.

Friday 07/18/2008
Each time we discover a developer carving-out a new Living Places in Lower Bucks County, we think ... well that's it, there's no more room for new developments after this. But somehow, surprises keep appearing. Here are two we found just yesterday as we were out and about exploring neighborhoods:
DELANCEY COURT — an active adult (55 plus) townhome community by McGrath Builders, and,
NEWTOWN WALK — a luxury townhome development by the ever-prolific Toll Brothers.
Both are located in Newtown Township (Council Rock School District). This brings the Living Places inventory of Bucks County Neighborhoods to the tidy number of 1,111 and our total neighborhood/subdivision pages to 2,881. Stay tuned, we'll be "discovering" more in the weeks and months ahead.

Thursday 07/17/2008
Historic Edgely Village — originally known as Cold Spring because of its proximity to two springs. Edgely also served as a train station for the New York division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The name Edgely was given to a large estate adjoining the station. The long edge of this property bordered on the Delaware River and this may be the source of the village's name. [Bristol Township, Bucks County]

Wednesday 07/16/2008
Erlanger Mill Village Historic District — the development of Erlanger and other North Carolina textile mills created not only jobs, but entire communities, as mill owners constructed small self-sufficient villages to sustain mill workers and their families. Mill villages contained homes, schools, churches, and company stores adjacent to the mills and often boasted sizable populations. [City of Lexington, Davidson County]

Tuesday 07/15/2008
Harmony (see Harmony Historic District) was the first home of the Harmonie Society, formally established by George Rapp in 1805. Organized as a communitarian theocracy under Rapp's spiritual control, the small group of German pietists built a prosperous community in the Pennsylvania wilderness within the span of 10 years. [Harmony Borough, Butler County, PA]

Monday 07/14/2008
The Roaring Spring Historic District stands as an excellent example of a paternally founded and managed paper-mill town in central Pennsylvania, one whose buildings reflect how the growth of a hometown family-owned industry stimulated and, in many cases, directed the development patterns and architectural character of the community. [Borough of Roaring Spring, Blair County, PA]

Sunday 07/13/2008
Updated: The DuBois Historic District reflects many of the architectural styles popular during the 1888-1947. A number of the buildings in the district have been documented to be the work of prominent local builders such as Bert C. Skinner and Aaron Nelson Work, architect/master builders such as Amos Orner and George V. Cyphert, and locally- and regionally-important architect Russell G. Howard. [DuBois City, Clearfield County, PA]

Saturday 07/12/2008
Elmwood Park is a small (2 blocks by 6 blocks), picturesque residential neighborhood bordering the Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown Borough (the seat of government for Montgomery County, PA).

Friday 07/11/2008
The Bridgewater Historic District for its collection of historic resources that date between 1818 and 1933 These include excellent examples of the Greek Revival and Queen Anne styles from the middle and end of the nineteenth century, and represent the successive periods of Bridgewater Borough's history. [Beaver County, PA]

Wednesday 07/09/2008
The Sutton-Ditz House, (18 Grant Street; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004) a locally distinctive example of an originally (ca. 1847) Greek Revival style mid-nineteenth-century residence which was remodeled in the Neo-Classical Revival style (ca. 1920) during the first decade of the twentieth century. [Clarion County, PA]

Thursday 07/03/2008
Of the dozens of historic districts we have visited in recent months across PA, NY and NJ, the western-most block of Liberty Street in the Franklin Historic District is arguably the "most appealing" residential setting we encountered. [City of Franklin, Venango County, PA]

Tuesday 07/01/2008
MOST-VISITED NEIGHBORHOODS
Of more than 1,100 Bucks County Neighborhoods on Living Places, these are the five most-frequented by site vistors during June 2008.

1. Makefield Glen
2. Flowers Mill
3. Heacock Meadows
4. Heritage Creek
5. Villas at Shady Brook