{"nrhp_refnum":"02000807","name":"Llyswen Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Coleridge, Logan, Aldrich bounded by Mill Run and Ward","address_restricted":false,"city":"Altoona","county":"Blair County","state":"PA","lat":40.48364103850005,"lon":-78.40691280663046,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-07-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania, centered on Logan Boulevard and built as a streetcar suburb with 166 contributing buildings. It contains mostly single-family homes plus a historic school, two churches and a former trolley station.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant under Criterion C for architecture as a strong, locally unique example of a trolley-era speculative suburb. Its generous lots and picturesque street layout contrast with Altoona's rigid grid, and it holds a concentration of period styles from the late 19th century to about 1940. The Beezer Brothers' designs set the architectural character of the early development.","narrative":"Llyswen is a residential district of single-family houses in Altoona, built along Logan Boulevard, the former route of the Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway. The Altoona Suburban Home Company laid out its sections between 1895 and 1907, and the lots were sold to independent builders over roughly forty-five years. Its curving avenues and large lots were unusual in a city of rigid grids. The architect brothers Louis and Michael Beezer designed the 1895 streetcar station of riverstone and their own shingled cottages at 306 and 308 Logan Boulevard, which set a design model for the suburb. Houses in the district range from Queen Anne towers to Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman and bungalow forms. The district is regarded as a broad record of middle-class domestic architecture in Altoona from the 1890s to about 1940, and of the city's economic ties to the Pennsylvania Railroad.","period_of_significance":"1895- ca. 1940","architect_builder":"Beezer Brothers (architect/builders); Patrick W. Finn (builder); Julian Millard (architect); Frederick J. Shollar (architect)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Queen Anne; Bungalow","criteria":["C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.280631-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/02000807.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000807/29024779f4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000807/29024779f4-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"David Ames","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_G._and_Margaret_Stewart_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">David Ames</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_G._and_Margaret_Stewart_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994499","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llyswen_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6662970"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/blair-county/llyswen-historic-district-02000807/"}