{"nrhp_refnum":"85001174","name":"Danville West Market Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Courthouse Alley E., Front St S., Haney's Alley W. and Mahoning St. N.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Danville","county":"Montour County","state":"PA","lat":40.05998490400003,"lon":-76.6005817062242,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-05-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 11.2 acres and 44 major buildings along West Market Street and part of Mahoning Street in Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania, overlooking the North Branch of the Susquehanna River.","why_significant":"The district is significant for architecture in the 1800 to 1925 period, as it contains representative examples of many major domestic styles, including Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Victorian Eclectic, Queen Anne, Shingle and Colonial Revival. Its high level of integrity, with only three intrusions none fronting Market Street, makes it an unusually well-preserved middle-class nineteenth-century neighborhood tied to the town's iron industry and transportation growth.","narrative":"West Market Street in Danville is a residential district of about eleven acres overlooking the North Branch of the Susquehanna River. Its houses were built between about 1800 and 1925, when the neighborhood developed as a middle-class area beside the town's growing iron works and transport links, including the North Branch Canal and several rail lines. Within the district are Federal brick and frame houses, Greek Revival townhouses, Italianate dwellings, and later Second Empire, Queen Anne, Victorian Eclectic, Shingle and Colonial Revival homes. The William Hancock house at 11 West Market Street, a stone Second Empire mansion built in the early 1870s, is a textbook example of its style, while the Baldy house at 100 West Market Street is the largest dwelling in the district. Because few later buildings intrude on Market Street, the streetscape retains a continuous record of nineteenth-century domestic architecture.","period_of_significance":"1800-1925","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Victorian Eclectic, Queen Anne, Shingle, Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The district is entirely residential; three intrusions are present, none fronting onto Market Street.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:13:22.616513-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/85001174.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001174/48fab4df5f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001174/48fab4df5f-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:113_W_Market_Danville_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:113_W_Market_Danville_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995200","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danville_West_Market_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5221395"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montour-county/danville-west-market-street-historic-district-85001174/"}