{"nrhp_refnum":"78002484","name":"Salem Crossroads Historic District","other_names":["Delmont"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Pittsburgh and Greenburg Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Delmont","county":"Westmoreland County","state":"PA","lat":40.41282922450006,"lon":-79.57011397846333,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-09-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Salem Crossroads, now called Delmont, is a historic district in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, about 23 miles east of Pittsburgh, located just east of Route 66 on Route 22, the Old Northern Pike. The district is made up of mostly 1830-1870 era houses, shops and taverns along its streets, with later buildings interspersed.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district preserves a crossroads community that prospered from stage travel and turnpike traffic in the early nineteenth century. It cites the town's taverns, stores and trades, and the decline that followed the arrival of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1852, which bypassed the community. The district's Greek Revival buildings are presented as the predominant building form.","narrative":"Salem Crossroads, now Delmont, lies along the Old Northern Pike about 23 miles east of Pittsburgh. Laid out by Thomas Wilson in 1814 into 48 lots, the town grew around a junction of two principal stage routes and at one time was served by as many as five stage coach lines. Taverns, storekeepers, wagonmakers, tanners and harnessmakers depended on the traffic of Conestoga wagons and livestock drovers heading west. Most of the district's buildings date from about 1830 to 1870 and are predominantly brick Greek Revival houses, with some Italianate detailing, a Gothic Revival church built in 1868 and a Queen Anne house. The district is significant as a well-documented example of a stage-era crossroads town, and the nomination ties its decline to the Pennsylvania Railroad, which reached Greensburg in 1852 by a route that bypassed the community.","period_of_significance":"1830-1870","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Italianate; Gothic Revival; Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Several buildings are noted as altered, enclosed, or sided, and the Central Hotel is described as still standing and to be restored.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.712204-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002484.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002484/369234d231-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002484/369234d231-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Canadian2006","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Delmont_Pennsylvania_2012.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian2006</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Delmont_Pennsylvania_2012.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995222","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Crossroads_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7404087"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/westmoreland-county/salem-crossroads-historic-district-78002484/"}