{"nrhp_refnum":"03000036","name":"Uniontown Downtown Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"18 S. Beeson Blvd. and 9 E. Peter St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Uniontown","county":"Fayette County","state":"PA","lat":39.90387837900005,"lon":-79.72514792799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-02-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two contributing commercial buildings on the western third of a block one block north of Main Street in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, forming a boundary increase to the Uniontown Downtown Historic District. The buildings are 18 S. Beeson Boulevard, a former department store, and 9 E. Peter Street, a two-story commercial building.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the buildings contribute to the commercial history of Uniontown's 1920s boom, when the city's prosperity rested on coal and coke. The 18 S. Beeson Boulevard building is the former Fair Store, built in 1924 after a 1922 fire cleared the site and later used as a Sears store. The buildings are also significant for their architecture, complementing the existing district under Criterion A for commerce and Criterion C for architecture.","narrative":"Two commercial buildings occupy the western third of a block a half block north of Main Street in Uniontown. The larger, at 18 South Beeson Boulevard, is a two-and-a-half-story buff brick former department store with a chamfered corner at Beeson Boulevard and Peter Street, built in 1924 after a 1922 fire cleared the site. It was first the Fair Store, a small local department store, and later became a Sears store in 1934. Sears added a north addition in 1956. The second building, at 9 East Peter Street, is a two-story brown brick commercial structure also built in 1924, with a symmetrical storefront and four wooden double-hung sash windows on the upper floor. Its tenants included a billiard parlor in the 1920s, an A&P grocery in the 1930s, and a produce store and meat market in the 1940s and 1950s. Both buildings reflect the commercial growth fueled by the coal and coke economy of the 1920s.","period_of_significance":"1924-1939","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Renaissance; Moderne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The former Sears store was vacated and sold in 1975 and used as offices until 1998; in December 1998 it was purchased to be rehabilitated for a business school and other tenants.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.379736-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/03000036.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998410","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fayette-county/uniontown-downtown-historic-district-boundary-increase-03000036/"}