Thursday 12/31/2009
The Chaumont Historic District is a well-preserved concentration of mostly residential buildings spanning the period 1835 to 1931 and representing nearly a century of development in a rural eastern Lake Ontario village. [Chaumont Village, Jefferson County, NY]

Browse Neighborhoods by Zip Code
      08062, Mullica Hill, NJ

Updated: Browse Neighborhoods by Builder
      Orleans Homebuilders
      Pulte Homes

Wednesday 12/30/2009
The State Street Historic District encompasses a three-block area in the Village of Carthage, Jefferson County. State Street is the main thoroughfare of the village and crosses the Black River to connect the villages of Carthage and West Carthage.

Tuesday 12/29/2009
The Russia Corners Historic District is an intact crossroads cluster of frame vernacular classical revival period buildings associated with early settlement of Herkimer County. [Town of Russia]

Built in 1873, the Herkimer County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Monday 12/28/2009
Browse more than 75 residential neighborhoods and subdivisions in Deptford, West Deptford, and Mantua Townships, Gloucester County, New Jersey.

Browse Neighborhoods by Zip Code
      08080, Sewell, NJ

Thursday 12/24/2009
Browse more than 60 residential neighborhoods and subdivisions in Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey.

Wednesday 12/23/2009
Borough of Flemington — First settled ca. 1756, Flemington, the seat of government for Hunterdon County, NJ, was incorporated in 1870.

Tuesday 12/22/2009
The Lake Street Historic District, is a cohesive grouping of Romanesque Revival and early 20th-century vernacular commercial architecture. The district is significant as the only surviving intact, one-block section of the late 19th-century commercial core of the small agricultural community of Bergen Village, Genesee County, NY.

Monday 12/21/2009
The Stafford Village Four Corners Historic District is the heart of a nineteenth-century village and the site of the first settlement on the Holland Purchase Tract. It contains one of the oldest homes in Genesee County [Town of Stafford].

King George the Second Hotel — still in operation today as the King George II Inn, it was built in 1765 by Charles Bessonett. [Bristol Borough, Bucks County, PA].

Sunday 12/20/2009
Active Adult (55-plus) communities in
Washington Township, Gloucester County, NJ:
• Heatherwood
• The Maples
• Parke Place

Ironville Historic District — The history of Ironville began somewhat before the mining era. In 1807, Allen Penfield migrated westward from Vermont, bringing with him a man named Timothy Taft. The two men established a store and sawmill at the Ironville site. Apparently buying and selling brought them considerable prosperity, for when iron ore was found in the locality in 1826 they immediately purchased the land and set to work building an iron works. [Town of Crown Point, Essex County, NY]

Saturday 12/19/2009
The Lake George Avenue Historic District is a well-preserved example of an early twentieth century residential enclave, containing a variety of popular architectural tastes that represented national trends in corporate sponsored workers' housing and residential planning in Ticonderoga.

Amherst Avenue Historic District — Constructed by the Ticonderoga Pulp and Paper Company in 1921-1923, under the direction of local builder William A. Gale, the District is one of two industrial sponsored housing developments constructed for mill employees.
[Town of Ticonderoga, Essex County, NY]

Tuesday 12/15/2009
A Brief History of New Jersey
Updated: New Jersey — The Garden State

Sunday 12/13/2009
The Village of Rhinebeck Historic District has extraordinarily rich, intact period streetscapes coupled as well as several outstanding structures. This results in a unique community with a high level of historical and architectural consciousness.
[Rhinebeck Village, Dutchess County, NY]

Saturday 12/12/2009
Monmouth County, NJ
Neighborhoods in Allentown Borough
      Pondview
      Indian Run
Neighborhoods in Upper Freehold Township
      Arneytown
      Crosswicks Farm
      Drews Farm
      Ellisdale
      Forge Mill
      Four Seasons
      Galloping Brook
      Grande at Old York
      Grande Mill
      Heritage Green
      Imlaystown
      Long Acre
      Lynwood Estates
      Mill Pond
      Stone Tavern Estates
      Winchester Estates
      Woods at Cream Ridge
      Wrightsville

Thursday 12/10/2009
The Cottage Row Historic District is an architecturally significant as an intact residential neighborhood containing the best known and most densely built up concentration of structures built for the purposes of curing in the Village of Saranac Lake. Every house within the boundaries of the district housed tuberculous patients for profit at some point in its history.

The Church Street Historic District is historically and architecturally significant as the center of the village's medical and religious activity during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The District contains a number of residences/offices of many of the leading physicians and researchers in the field of pulmonary disease during the period of significance.
[Saranac Lake Village, Franklin County, NY]

Wednesday 12/09/2009
The Highland Park Historic District is architecturally significant as an intact early twentieth century residential neighborhood designed and constructed as an upper-income enclave of single family homes, with cure related features. It was the largest and best-known of the three upper-class neighborhoods that were eventually built in the Village of Saranac Lake [Essex & Franklin Counties, NY]. Among its residents were well-known local doctors, village trustees, and a number of millionaires who came to the area in search of a cure for tuberculosis, either for themselves or for a family member.

The Isaac Newton and Bernardine Hagan House is a nationally significant work of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and one of only two such works in western Pennsylvania. While Wright designed many houses during his prolific career, only a few high-end, more customized examples based upon the Usonian model exist. [Stewart Township, Fayette County, PA]

Tuesday 12/08/2009
Essex Village Historic District — visually, both in layout and architecture, Essex has retained the character of an early 19th century village, a character determined by its geographical and historical position. [Town of Essex, Essex County, NY]

The Main Street-Park Place-Albertson Street Historic District section of Hyde Park is historically and architecturally significant as the most intact collection of mid-nineteenth century dwellings in the Town of Hyde Park [Dutchess County]. Primarily built between 1840 and 1865, these houses as a group represent a typical village residential streetscape from the mid-nineteenth century.

Usonian Style Architecture (1940s-1960s).

Monday 12/07/2009
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site — the Hudson River country estate of Frederick W. Vanderbilt is a splendid artifact of the period between the Civil War and World War I when financiers and industrialists lived in a style which consciously emulated European pomp. The 50-room Beaux Arts Mansion designed by McKim, Mead and White, the most prestigious architectural firm of the era, is a well-proportioned example of palatial style.

The Vanderbilt Lane Historic District retains the feeling and sense of a nineteenth-century agricultural complex associated with the Vanderbilt Estate. The buildings were, and remain today, small-scaled frame and stone construction, located in an uncrowded setting. The farm complex was an integral part of the estate. The complex has since been subdivided and the buildings are now under separate ownership.
[Town of Hyde Park, Dutchess County, NY]

Sunday 12/06/2009

The Great Falls Historic District, (listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970), is the result of what was conceived as a venture by Alexander Hamilton in 1791, known as the Society for the Establishment of Useful Manufactures (S.U.M.).
[City of Paterson, Passaic County, NJ]

Saturday 12/05/2009
Mount Holly, county seat of Burlington County, NJ
Neighborhoods in Eastampton Township
      Eastampton Farms
      Eastampton Mews
      Lakeview
      Smithville
      Sunset Ridge
      Vistas
Neighborhoods in Hainesport Township
      Franklin Estates
      Glen at Masons Creek
      Hainesport Chase
      Lakeside
      Laurel Ridge
      Oakdale
      Rancocas Heights
      Sage Run

Friday 12/04/2009
Updated:
      Active Adult (55-plus) Neighborhoods
      Orleans Homebuilders Neighborhoods/Subdivisions
      Toll Brothers Neighborhoods/Subdivisions
      Neighborhoods in Lumberton Township, (Burlington County, NJ)
      Neighborhoods in Hainesport Township, (Burlington County, NJ)

Thursday 12/03/2009
The Wheeler Hill Historic District is a highly intact concentration of stylistically distinctive Hudson River estates that recall the nineteenth and early twentieth century social history of western Dutchess County development (Town of Wappinger). Architectural styles represented by the six principal estates in the district include high-style examples of Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Italian Villa, Second Empire, Shingle and Colonial Revival design.

The first settlements in Warren County, New Jersey were made along the Delaware River at what is now Phillipsburg and Pahaquarry before the territory of West Jersey was organized into the county of Hunterdon.

Guilford County, North Carolina (county seat – Greensboro) was named in honor of Lord North, Earl of Guilford, who was a Tory, King George II's Prime Minister, and "one who bowed to the royal will, and endeavored to carry out George III's favorite policy of 'governing for, but never by, the people.'"

Wednesday 12/02/2009
The Wappingers Falls Historic District is a collection of distinctive 19th-century structures linked to the development of an important Hudson Valley industrial center. The District contains well-preserved examples of factories, workers' housing, commercial buildings, stylish middle-class residences, and public structures including churches, banks, a library, a post office and an arched sandstone bridge spanning the Wappingers Creek. [Wappingers Falls Village, Dutchess County, New York]

Tuesday 12/01/2009
The Stone Street Historic District is architecturally significant as an intact grouping of distinctive mid-to-late-nineteenth century residences in New Hamburg (1845-1870).

The Main Street Historic District is a small, yet distinctive, grouping of residential and commercial buildings illustrates the evolution of local architectural forms and designs as well as the transition of the community's focus from the river to the train. [Town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York.]

Monday 11/30/2009
Browse more than 70 Residential Neighborhoods in Marlton (Evesham Township), Burlington County, NJ.

Thursday 11/26/2009
Legacy Oaks — Barness built three 55-plus Subdivision under this name:
  • Legacy Oaks, Evesham Twp, Burlington County, NJ
  • Legacy Oaks, Northampton Township, Bucks County, PA
  • Legacy Oaks, Warrington Township, Bucks County, PA

Updated: Active Adult (55-plus) Neighborhoods

Wednesday 11/25/2009
The Dwight-Hooker Avenue Historic District represents the most architecturally significant turn-of-the-century neighborhood in Poughkeepsie. Originally part of the Whitehouse estate, the land was surveyed and Dwight Street was laid out about 1895. Most of the houses were constructed between 1895 and 1915 in the eclectic styles, which provide a rich variety of "natural" materials such as brown-stained shingles, orange terra cotta, and neutral stucco.

Located on the summit of a hill, the Garfield Place Historic District possesses distinction for its visual impact achieved by the consistency both of pretension in design and of its largely original character and integrity. Constructed primarily during the third quarter of the nineteenth century, the district's residences were an expression of the economic prosperity of a small industrial city.
[City of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, NY]

Commentary
  • Home Buyers Want Neighborhood Info / Phone Numbers
  • Red Houses

Thursday 11/19/2009
Updated: The George E. Trimble House — built in 1909, the Trimble House retains integrity of design and materials and exhibits many of the major stylistic characteristics which distinguish Arts and Crafts inspired structures.

Tuesday 11/17/2009
Updated:
      Active Adult (55-plus) Neighborhoods
      Toll Brothers Neighborhoods/Subdivisions

Friday 11/13/2009
Academy Street Historic District — within four blocks of Poughkeepsie City's main commercial street, this district includes Greek Revival, Hudson River Bracketed, Second Empire, Victorian residential, Eastern Stick/Eastlake, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival examples of residential architecture.

The Balding Avenue Historic District encompasses one of the finest Poughkeepsie streets which illustrates a solidly middle-class neighborhood of the second half of the nineteenth century. In comparing its residences to those on Academy Street, one notes a modesty and simplicity in this district.

The Union Street Historic District is the oldest remaining section of Poughkeepsie. Union Street was once a winding footpath to the Union Store on the Hudson River from the small settlement on the plateau. In 1767 Union Street became the first road to the river.

The Upper Mill Street Historic District is one of Poughkeepsie's finest neighborhoods of fashionable nineteenth-century factory owners' residences.
[Dutchess County, New York]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Poughkeepsie area is approximately $234,000.

Thursday 11/12/2009
The New Kingston Historic District is a highly intact example of a small, rural, nineteenth-century hamlet in Delaware County. (Town of Middletown) It was settled primarily by Scottish immigrants in the early nineteenth century, the settlement area is a steep, mountainous region characterized by scattered upland farms. The hamlet developed around the establishment of a church, store, and several small shops and is the only social and community center within the New Kingston Valley.

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the New Kingston/Margaretville area is approximately $260,000.

Tuesday 11/10/2009
Mount Laurel Township [Burlington County, NJ] is among the most active residential resale markets across the Greater Philadelphia Region. Browse among more than 75 Mount Laurel Neighborhoods.

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a detached, single family home in the Mount Laurel area is approximately $375,000; median asking price for condos and townhomes, approximately $177,000.

Sunday 11/08/2009
The Roxbury Historic District encompasses, updates, and considerably expands the earlier Main Street Historic District. Owing to the hamlet's having been the birthplace of prominent financier Jay Gould, and the summer home of his daughter, Helen Gould Shepard, Roxbury retains some unusually high style buildings and landscapes. [Town of Roxbury, Delaware County, NY]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Roxbury area is approximately $210,000.

Saturday 11/07/2009
Residential real estate news for Burlington Township (Burlington County, NJ) remains a mixed-bag according to recent sales (Sept 2009) posted on the township's website (www.twp.burlington.nj.us, accessed 11/07/2009). Neighborhoods with homes selling for less than their assessed valuation included: Classic Woods, Fawn Hollow, Sylvan Lakes, and Santa Fe. The neighborhoods of Forest Park and Oxmead Crossing saw sale prices exceeding the assessed valuation. And at least one neighborhood, Steeplechase, saw sales for the month both under and over assessed valuation.

Friday 11/06/2009
The Churchill Park Historic District represents the prosperity this resort community once enjoyed. From 1884 until 1935, Stamford was one of the most popular summer resorts in the Catskills. [Village of Stamford]

The Bovina Center Historic District is a highly intact example of a typical rural hamlet of the northern Catskill region of New York State. Developed primarily in the period 1820 to 1900, the hamlet retains a high degree of historic integrity, both in its individual buildings and its nineteenth-century streetscapes. [Town of Bovina, Delaware County, NY]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Stamford area is approximately $165,000; in the Bovina area, approximately $290,000.

Thursday 11/05/2009
Andes Historic District — Residences and commercial buildings dating from circa 1830 to the 1920s make up the varied streetscape. Although many building styles and periods are represented in the district, there is a strong sense of cohesiveness provided by the similarities of scale, materials, and workmanship; the repetitive rhythm of the streetscape, and the vernacular design themes. [Town of Andes, Delaware County, NY]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Andes area is approximately $230,000.

Wednesday 11/04/2009
The Franklin Village Historic District represents the local influence on architecture and development resulting from the presence of the Delaware Literary Institute, a regionally prominent secondary institution established in Franklin Village in 1835.

The three buildings constituting the Gardiner Place Historic District represent significant examples of Walton Village's public building types and architectural styles prevalent nationally during their respective dates of construction. The oldest of the three buildings is the William B. Ogden Free Library, begun on September 25, 1896 and completed on July 1, 1897. The library is constructed of locally quarried bluestone and stands one and one-half stories in height. [Delaware County, NY]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Walton area is approximately $159,000; in the Franklin area, approximately $187,000.

Tuesday 11/03/2009
The Main Street Historic District is as an intact concentration of historic residential, religious and commercial buildings representative of building types, construction practices and stylistic influences common in the small town architecture of central New York State between c.1820 and 1920. Early development is represented by a group of eight vernacular Federal style houses which represent the first substantial frame dwellings built in the village and the only examples of their type to survive in the Village of McGraw.

The Cincinnatus Historic District is significant as an unusually well-preserved enclave of historic architecture representing the growth and development of the hamlet between 1830 and 1930. [Town of Cincinnatus, Cortland County, NY]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Cincinnatus area is approximately $188,000; in the McGraw area, approximately $94,000.

Monday 11/02/2009

The Old Homer Village Historic District represents a well preserved 19th century village located in Central New York. The Village Green, center of the town and ringed both in the past and now by churches, is a New England phenomena transplanted to central New York. It's no surprise considering the first settlers came from Connecticut and Massachusetts. [Homer Village, Cortland County, NY]

Sunday 11/01/2009
Updated: Browse Neighborhoods by Builder
      Orleans Homes
      T. H. Propertis

Cherry Hill Township (Camden County, NJ) is located in what was then known as the third tenth of West Jersey, between the Pennsauken and Timber Creeks, extending from the Delaware River to the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the early settlers were Quakers who bought land from the Proprietors of West Jersey.

The Cortland County Courthouse (ca. 1924) is a three story building constructed of smooth cut Indiana limestone. The outstanding architectural feature of the structure is its cupola, which rests on a balustraded octagonal base above which are twenty-four Corinthian columns. It was designed by the noted architect James Riley Gordon and influenced by the design of the National Capital.
[Cortland City, Cortland County, NY]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Cortland area is approximately $155,000.

Saturday 10/31/2009
The Oxford Village Historic District is architecturally and historically significant as a largely intact village core which reflects the growth and prosperity of a small south-central New York valley community from 1794 until 1930.

The Theodore Burr House, built between 1810 and 1812, derives its primary significance from its association with Theodore Burr, a pioneer American bridge designer and builder of the early nineteenth century. The building is an example of the Federal and Greek Revival styles, subsequently enhanced with Victorian detail.
[Oxford Village, Chenango County, NY]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Oxford area is approximately $125,000.

Friday 10/30/2009
Revised — Homes FOR RENT and LEASE

The New Berlin Historic District forms the core of modern New Berlin Village and contains its greatest concentration of historically and architecturally significant properties. The district architecture displays design and workmanship of high overall quality and coheres to form a distinctive entity notable for its integrity of feeling and association.

The Main Street Historic District, comprising that part of the Afton Village core which has retained integrity of design materials and workmanship, is both architecturally and historically significant. The eleven buildings, mainly connected brick blocks with massive corbelled, Romanesque style cornices, exhibit the characteristic features of late nineteenth century, small-scale commercial architecture.
[Chenango County, NY]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the New Berlin area is approximately $120,000; in the Afton area, approximately $145,000.

Thursday 10/29/2009
The Bainbridge Historic District is significant both for the quality of its historic architecture and as a reflection of the village's historical development. A frontier outpost in the late eighteenth century, the hamlet developed into a major center for trade and transportation during the period of intense western migration in the early nineteenth century. Two entrepreneurs, Baron de Zeng and Colonel Richard Juliand, were very important in promoting this early development, leaving their mark on the architecture and institutions of the village. [Bainbridge Village, Chenango County, NY]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Bainbridge area is approximately $125,000.

Wednesday 10/28/2009
The Earlville Historic District is architecturally significant as a cohesive concentration of nineteenth and early twentieth century buildings which conveys the feeling and association this small rural village acquired in the period 1880-1920. [Village of Earlville, Madison County, NY]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Earlville area is approximately $92,000.

Tuesday 10/27/2009
The Sherburne Historic District is a distinctive concentration of residential, commercial, industrial and institutional buildings that is both historically and architecturally significant. Only the street patterns remain from the settlement's first years, but all subsequent periods of village growth are reflected in the district buildings and landscape. [Sherburne Village, Chenango County, NY]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Sherburne area is approximately $129,000.

Monday 10/26/2009
Lakebridge is an Active Adult (55-plus) community located in Deptford Township, Gloucester County NJ. See also: Index of 143 Active Adult Communities

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Lakebridge community is approximately $180,000.

The Greene Historic District contains a high concentration of historic buildings and intact streetscapes. Buildings in the district embody the distinctive characteristics of historical architectural styles ranging from the simple Federal buildings of the early nineteenth century to Georgian Revival buildings of the 1920's. [Village of Greene, Chenango County, NY]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Greene area is approximately $135,000.

Sunday 10/25/2009
The South Otselic Historic District is a cohesive grouping of historically and architecturally significant buildings which includes representative examples of both the modest vernacular housing of the early settlement period and the ostentatious commercial blocks and residences of the late nineteenth century. Prospering as the social and commercial center for an isolated rural area, the hamlet's growth peaked in the late nineteenth century. The Gladding Corporation, manufacturing line and cordage in South Otselic since the 1890s, has provided stability to the hamlet economy despite population decline in the twentieth century.
[Town of Otselic, Chenango County, NY]

Saturday 10/24/2009
The Church Street/Congress Street Historic District's continued development also exemplifies Moravia's Social and Economic Development, 1865-1941, as illustrated by residential, religious, and institutional architecture built during this later period.

The North Main Street Historic District reflects the scale, use of materials, architectural design and setting typical of residential neighborhoods in the village during the prosperous decades which followed the introduction of railroad service to the village in 1870.
[Village of Moravia, Cayuga County, NY]

Friday 10/23/2009
The Oak Hill Park Historic District is an architecturally and historically significant concentration of mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century residential, educational, and religious architecture and landscape design, in the City of Olean, Cattaraugus County, New York. Situated at the head of navigation of the Allegheny River, Olean, an early transportation center, was settled in 1804 and became a prosperous community and a major stopping point for people migrating west until the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825.

Wednesday 10/21/2009
The Ellicottville Historic District is architecturally and historically significant as an intact example of an early nineteenth-century planned village that reflects the systematic land division and development patterns of western New York State. The district contains the portion of the plan that remains physically and architecturally intact and embodies the village's development from wilderness outpost to mature community, ca. 1827-1935. [Ellicotttville Village, Cattaraugus County, NY]

Tuesday 10/20/2009
Most-Popular Street Names in Living Places' Neighborhoods

Monday 10/19/2009
Wave Hill, the southernmost of the nineteenth-century Hudson River Valley estates, is significant for its associations with a number of notable figures in American history over a 150-year period. Located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx  Borough,  NY, the estate contains a number of architecturally distinguished structures, some representative examples of the work of prominent architects and a series of gardens and landscaping improvements which together illustrate the evolution over time of an early nineteenth century manor into a turn-of-the-century estate and finally a public park and environmental center.

Saturday 10/17/2009
Berks County Pennsylvania Neighborhoods a selection of more than 100 residential subdivisions, neighborhoods and historic villages.

Friday 10/16/2009
Windsor Village Historic District — the diverse architectural styles of Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, 19th-century vernacular, Queen Anne, Second Empire, and Colonial Revival reflect the evolution of styles in a rural New York Village as it developed over more than a century and a half. [Village of Windsor, Broome County, NY]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Windsor area is approximately $110,000.

Thursday 10/15/2009
The Olmstead Street Historic District is a microcosm of mid-nineteenth century industrial history is embodied in the grouping of mill, canal, and mill housing in the located in the center of Cohoes.

The Harmony Mills Historic District is the largest extant nineteenth century textile mill complex in New York State, and one of the few such complexes of this size remaining in this country.
[City of Cohoes, Albany County, NY]

Wednesday 10/14/2009
The Rensselaerville Historic District is historically and architecturally important as a rare surviving example of an intact early nineteenth century hamlet in a dramatic natural setting. By 1832, Rensselaerville was one of the most prosperous villages in the state and this prosperity was reflected in the construction of many substantial residences exhibiting regional interpretations of the most sophisticated architectural fashions of the period, in its support of four religious congregations, and in the development of many local businesses. [Town of Rensselaerville, Albany County, NY]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Rensselaerville area is approximately $212,000.

Tuesday 10/13/2009
The Alcove Historic District is a small nineteenth-century rural community, the result of hydraulic industrial development along the Hannacrois Creek. Originally known as Stephensville, the village was settled about 1790 by Casparus Ackerman and Archibald Stephens. [Town of Coeymans, Albany County, NY]

The Loudon Road Historic District provides a record of the history of this important northwards route (Route 9) throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The district retains exceptionally fine examples of an architecture reflecting the taste of each successive period of growth as well as a remarkably intact suburban landscape. [Town of Colonie]

Town of Middlebury, Addison County, Vermont — Benjamin Smalley from Salisbury, Connecticut, was the first immigrant, who brought his family into town. In the spring of 1773, he took possession and built the first log house in town, on his two hundred acres, lying at the mouth of Middlebury River.

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Middlebury Vermont area is approximately $279,000; in the Loudonville (Albany County NY) area, approximately $480,000.

Monday 10/12/2009
Eckley Historic District — the village of Eckley is a primary extant example of the mining towns which helped make Pennsylvania. In addition to symbolizing anthracite mining, Eckley also symbolizes the contributions of the Coxe family to the American coal industry and to U.S. Industrial development in general. [Foster Township]

The Denison House is typical of those built by the early colonists after the immediate years of settlement. It is related to 18th century New England framed and clapboarded construction having the chimney located in the center of the house. [Forty Fort Borough]

The Swetland Homestead is a fine example of an early New England type homestead which has been adapted and enlarged over succeeding generations reflecting the growth of the family and area from first settlement to mid 1800's. [Wyoming Borough, Luzerne County, PA]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Wyoming area is approximately $179,000.

Sunday 10/11/2009
The Israel Platt Pardee Mansion is located in the City of Hazleton in an area formerly known as Pardee Square. The main house is a large 19 room Queen Anne Clapboard Victorian. The architect was George W. Barber who was a well known pattern book architect of the time.

The Forty Fort Meeting House, built in 1806-08 and located in the Old Forty Fort Cemetery (20 River Street, Forty Fort Borough), is a wood-framed structure with white clapboard siding. It is fifty feet long by forty feet wide and is approximately thirty-eight feet high from the base of the three foot stone foundation to the peak of the shingled roof. [Luzerne County, PA]

Based on a review of information presented on a variety of real estate related websites, the median asking price of a single family home in the Hazleton area is approximately $122,000; in the Forty Fort area, appoximately $125,000.

Saturday 10/10/2009
The West Overton Historic District, 1-1/2 miles north of Scottdale Borough, is an example of mid-19th century western Pennsylvania vernacular architecture, including the homestead of the village's founding family, the Mennonite Overholts; the mill building was the profitable family distilling industry; the village store and houses sheltered members of the Overholt family and laborers. The district preserves the vernacular Greek Revival architectural style endemic of western PA and the overall physical appearance of a mid-19th century rural industrial community. It is the site of the area's oldest known distillery, was the home of the regionally-influential Overholt family and the birth place, in 1849, of nationally-known coal & coke magnate, Henry Clay Frick. [East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, PA]

An review of information gleaned from several real estate websites reveals that the median asking price of a single family home in the Scottdale/East Huntingdon area is approximately $88,000.

Friday 10/9/2009
The neighborhood that comprises the West Market Street Historic District was one of the first areas of Danville to begin to develop, and architectural styles represented here span the 1800 to 1925 period and include Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Victorian Eclectic, Queen Anne, Shingle and Georgian Revival. [Danville Borough, Montour County, PA]

Wednesday 10/7/2009
General William Montgomery House — General Montgomery was the founder of Danville, the county seat of Montour County, PA. He was also an important Revolutionary patriot, general, congressman, postmaster and judge.

The Thomas Beaver Free Library and Danville YMCA Building — the 2-building complex of attached structures was finished in 1886 and is an excellent represntation of both the architecture of the period and the ideals of their founder and patron, Thomas Beaver.

The Montgomery House and the Library/YMCA building are both located within the boundaries of the Danville Historic District which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

An review of information gleaned from several real estate websites reveals that the median asking price of a single family home in the Danville area is approximately $175,000.

Tuesday 10/6/2009
Bloomsburg, the seat of government for Columbia County PA, is located along the east branch of the Susquehanna River and lies roughly midway between the riverside boroughs of Danville (down river, Montour County) and Berkwick (up river). Bloomsburg University is one of 14 institutions which together comprise the Pennsylvania system of higher education. An review of information gleanedfrom several real estate websites reveals that the median asking price of a single family home in the Bloomsburg area is approximately $160,000.

Monday 10/5/2009
The Mooresburg One Room School was erected by Liberty Township in 1875 nearby the small village of Mooresburg. Liberty Township built seven more schools by 1886. In 1891 the municipality "rebuilt" the Mooresburg School, as indicated on a datestone. It is not known how the school was rebuilt. The township erected only one other school before 1912. Mooresburg One Room School continued to educate local children in grades one through eight until 1964 when it was acquired by the Montour County Historical Society which has since used it as a museum. [Montour County, PA]

Neigborhood Streets Index

Saturday 10/03/2009
The St. Marys Historic District, also known as Sanct Marienstadt, is a mixed-use area of approximately 170 acres, consisting of the historic core of the City of St. Marys, which is the largest community of Elk County, in north-central Pennsylvania.

Friday 10/02/2009
The Altoona Downtown Historic District contains a concentrated collection of commercial and residential buildings that convey the origins and growth of a community that sprouted from the railroad and matured into a full-fledged city. Downtown Altoona not only served as the city's center of commercial activity, but also, that of the entire Juniata Valley. As such, the the district is significant in the area of commerce. This urban core is comprised of landmarks of individual architectural merit and intact streetscapes depicting a time and place in the City's history. [City of Altoona, Blair County, PA]

Updated: The Boroughs of Pennsylvania

Thursday 10/01/2009
The Pound Ridge Historic District is significant as a rare example of a rural hamlet which retains architectural and spatial characteristics and historical associations which illustrate family and community life patterns in eastern Westchester County in the late 18th and 19th centuries. [Town of Pound Ridge, Westchester County, NY]

Wednesday 09/30/2009
The Old Chappaqua Historic District comprises the heart of the rural hamlet of "Shapequaw" settled by the Quakers in the middle of the 18th century. Focused around the wood frame Meeting House where Friends still gather regularly, a substantial number of early farm structures have survived within a still wooded tract of land and comprise a still recognizable entity despite modern residential growth in the vicinity. [Town of New Castle, Westchester County, NY]

Tuesday 09/29/2009
The Lawrence Park Historic District in the Village of Bronxville, New York, is a cohesive, primarily residential area and an excellent example of early suburban growth. Beyond the edges of Lawrence Park to the south and west is the commercial section of the village.

The North Grove Street Historic District is a small residential enclave situated on a hill to the east of the Village of Tarrytown's central business district. The district consists of five mid-nineteenth century houses and a carriage barn. Together, the six buildings form a cohesive group at the northern end of Grove Street between Neperan Road and Elizabeth Street.
[Westchester County, NY]

Monday 09/28/2009
The Bedford Road Historic District is located in Armonk, New York, a small hamlet in the Town of North Castle in central Westchester County, New York, near its border with Fairfield County, Connecticut. Armonk and its environs developed as an agricultural community in the eighteenth century due to its favorable location in a fertile valley watered by the Wampus and Byram Rivers.

Sunday 09/27/2009
The Katonah Village Historic District is defined by a significant concentration of mostly Queen Anne style residences and churches carefully sited within a grid plan designed by B.S. and G.S. Olmsted in 1895. [Town of Bedford, Westchester County, NY]

Saturday 09/26/2009
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. [Yardley Borough, Bucks County, PA]

Friday 09/25/2009
The Tyrone Borough Historic District originated with the arrival of the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line in 1850. The Railroad made the boro a junction for railroad traffic coming from short lines to the main line in northern Blair County. These railroads, the exploitation of area deposits of coal, and stands of fine timber caused Tyrone to grow and prosper through the early 20th century. Tyrone became the commercial center for northern Blair County from 1850 through 1938 as a result of the trade that flowed through Tyrone Borough.

The Seneca Falls Village Historic District is architecturally and historically significant as a large and exceptionally intact village commercial and residential center which retains significant streetscapes and buildings illustrating growth and development of a thriving manufacturing center between 1800-1930. [Village of Seneca Falls, Seneca County, NY]

Thursday 09/24/2009
Bedford Village Historic District — encompassing the heart of the old village, the district is illustrative of Bedford's history and architectural development from the last quarter of the 18th through the third quarter of the 19th century when it functioned as the political hub of northern part of the county and as the economic center for a thriving agricultural hinterland. [Town of Bedford, Westchester County, NY]

The Covert Historic District is a significant cluster of structures which illustrate the historical development and popular nineteenth-century architectural styles of rural Seneca County. [Town of Covert]

Wednesday 09/23/2009
Seneca County Courthouse Complex — situated in the Village of Ovid, a small agrarian community which has served as a county seat since 1804, three brick neo-classical buildings which comprise the county administrative complex are a significant feature of the area both politically and architecturally. [Seneca County, NY]

Waterloo Library — still owned and operated by the Waterloo Library and Historical Society, the building offers a rare glimpse into late nineteenth-century library design. [Village of Waterloo]

The Aaron Wilson House is architecturally significant as an outstanding example of early nineteenth century domestic architecture in Seneca County. [Town of Ovid]

The M'Clintock House was owned by Richard P. Hunt, a Quaker from Waterloo, and rented by Quaker pharmacist Thomas M'Clintock and his wife, Mary Ann M'Clintock.

Tuesday 09/22/2009
Home For Sale in Applegate, a neighborhood of 120 detached, single family residences by Pulte Homes ca. 2000 in West Goshen Township, Chester County, West Chester PA 19382.

The Washington Spring Road/Woods Road Historic District contains a significant collection of intact residential and religious properties which together reflect the evolution of vernacular architecture in the riparian community of Palisades in Rockland County, Town of Orangetown, NY.

The historic hamlet of Palisades evolved on land that was originally patented to George Lockhart in 1685.

Monday 09/21/2009
The Eatons Corners Historic District is a grouping of three architecturally distinguished properties which are the only intact, surviving remains of the early nineteenth century crossroads hamlet which is the only small, family-controlled hamlet in the town of Duanesburg to retain its integrity of design, setting, feeling and association.

The Quaker Street Historic District is a significant concentration of substantially intact, well-crafted vernacular structures built between c.1807 and c.1910.
[Town of Duanesburg, Schenectady County, NY]

Friday 09/18/2009
The Bridgeville Historic District is significant as a largely intact representative example of the type of community which characterized southern Delaware in the late 19th and early 20th century. [Town of Bridgeville, Sussex County, DE]

Thursday 09/17/2009
Browse Neighborhoods by Zip Code
      19440, Hatfield, PA

Tuesday 09/15/2009
The Kagerise Store and House (also known as Harting's Store) was built in 1827 as a combined store and residence by Michael Kagerise and his wife Rachel. [Adamstown Borough, Lancaster County, PA]

Monday 09/14/2009
Have a Shop — Live on Top
Stoudtburg Village is a development of live/work single and twin retail residences designed to emulate the experience and nostalgia of a European village.

Updated: — Living Places' photos from our recent visit to the incessantly-popular Saint Peters' Village, Warwick Township, Chester County, PA.

Friday 09/11/2009
Hilltown Township (Bucks County PA) was the first township formed north of Buckingham. Among these first purchasers of land was Israel Pemberton. As was the case elsewhere, the first purchasers generally took up large tracts, and were not settlers. Actual settlers were here early in the 18th century, but it is impossible to tell when, and by whom, the wilderness was first penetrated.

Thursday 09/10/2009
Updated:
      DeLuca Homes Neighborhoods/Subdivisions
      Toll Brothers Neighborhoods/Subdivisions
      Active Adult (55-plus) Neighborhoods

Wednesday 09/09/2009
Browse Neighborhoods by Zip Code
      19390, West Grove, PA
      More Neighborhoods by Zip Code

Saturday 09/05/2009
Lefferts Manor Historic District — like all the other late-nineteenth century developments in Brooklyn, the form of this development was dictated by the urban grid, which had been legally mandated for the city in 1869. Nevertheless, Lefferts provided a plan (effective through restrictive covenants on each lot sold) that would, in a variety of ways, distinguish the subdivision from its immediate surroundings and enhance its character as an exclusive enclave. Minimum size and value of residences, the placement and orientation of houses, outbuildings and fences on individual lots and — most important — the number of families permitted to occupy each lot were all detailed in the covenants. [Brooklyn, New York]

Friday 09/04/2009
The Park Slope Historic District is significant primarily in the outstanding quality of its architecture, dating, for the most part, from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Thursday 09/03/2009
Prospect Park South Historic District — the district was laid out in 1899 by real estate developer Dean Alvord who sought "to create a rural park within the limitations of the conventional city block and city street." It is the finest of the real estate developments that transformed southern Brooklyn from a rural farming area to a wealthy suburban community at the turn of the century.

Wednesday 09/02/2009
The Chestnut Hill Historic District documents a distinct residential neighborhood that has evolved over nearly three centuries. As early as 1711 the name Chestnut Hill was applied to this area in recorded land transfers. It grew around two roads, Germantown Pike (opened 1687) and Bethlehem Pike (opened 1703) linking Chestnut Hill with Philadelphia and with farms in the back country. The arrival of the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad in 1854 transformed the village into a beguiling summer retreat. Many summer residents hired noted Philadelphia architects to design their ample dwellings.

Tuesday 09/01/2009
SINGLE FAMILY HOME RESALE PRICES
Central Bucks School District — chart showing year-over-year resale price trend for single family homes. [Bucks County, PA]

Monday 08/31/2009
The Tappan Historic District is historically and architecturally significant for its intact collection of 18th, 19th and early 20th century architecture, and for its illustration of typical development patterns in a rural hamlet from the 18th through the early 20th centuries in one of New York State's earliest areas of settlement.

The Rockland County Courthouse is an Art Deco design selected by competition and constructed in 1928. It is a rare intact example of this architectural style in New City, Rockland County, New York.

Sunday 08/30/2009
Browse Neighborhoods by Zip Code
      19087, Wayne, PA
Browse Neighborhoods by Builder
      Bentley Homes (new)
      Gigliotti Group (updated)

Updated: Active Adult (55-plus) Neighborhoods

Friday 08/28/2009
Updated: Browse Neighborhoods by Zip Code
      19355, Malvern, PA
Updated: Browse Neighborhoods by Builder
      Pulte Homes
      Toll Brothers

Thursday 08/27/2009
The East Williston Village Historic District contains the community's largely intact, 19th and early 20th century residential and commercial core. [Village of East Williston, Nassau County, NY]

Browse Neighborhoods by Zip Code
      19061, Marcus Hook, PA

Wednesday 08/26/2009
The Main Street Historic District — in the face of exceptionally heavy modern development in Nassau County, is a surviving, uncompromised cluster of vernacular 19th century residential and commercial structures in their village context [Roslyn, NY] is particularly remarkable.
Delaware and Raritan Canal — when completed in 1834, the main line of the canal between Bordentown and New Brunswick extended 43 miles and included 14 locks. The feeder canal which tapped the Delaware River at Bulls Island and fed into the upper level of the main canal in Trenton extended 22 miles and passed through three locks.

Tuesday 08/25/2009
The Constableville Historic District is historically and architecturally significant as an intact cohesive group of commercial, civic, religious and residential structures representing the development of a North Country Village during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [Village of Constableville]

Edmund Wilson House — "The Stone House" was the name the noted twentieth century literary figure, Edmund Wilson, gave to his old farmhouse in Talcottville; the house he made famous in the book Upstate. [Town of Leyden, Lewis County, NY]

Update: Potwin Place Historic Distric, [Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas]