{"nrhp_refnum":"90000417","name":"Union City Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Third, High, Main, and South Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Union City","county":"Erie County","state":"PA","lat":41.89785053600005,"lon":-79.84725263722072,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-03-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A locally designated historic district in the borough of Union City, Erie County, Pennsylvania, of mixed commercial, industrial and residential buildings, with 128 buildings primarily erected between 1865 and 1925. It runs along Main Street and extends west to a residential neighborhood anchored by High Street, Third Avenue and South Street.","why_significant":"The district is significant in the areas of industry and architecture for its association with the wood products economy that sustained the town from 1865, including the Union City Chair Company. Its commercial and residential buildings are argued to be the largest and most intact concentration of high style domestic architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the town, with no comparable grouping elsewhere in Union City.","narrative":"Union City's Main Street and the residential streets to its west hold 128 buildings erected mostly between 1865 and 1925, mainly of brick and frame. The commercial blocks along Main Street follow the two-part commercial block plan common to small towns in the mid to late 19th century, while the residential section contains single family houses in Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Shingle Style, Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival styles. The district grew from the wood products trade that began with oil barrel making after the 1859 oil boom, and it includes the Union City Chair Company plant, established here in 1882. Fires in 1879 and floods in 1892 shaped rebuilding along Main Street, and the Main Street Bridge of 1896 is the one contributing structure. The houses of the mill and furniture managers form the largest group of high style homes in the town from this period. The district is significant for the way its buildings record the town's economic development and its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1865-1925","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian; Colonial Revival; late 19th century eclectic and early 20th century revival styles","criteria":["A","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 17:11:36.607787-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90000417.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000417/c65b35c5da-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000417/c65b35c5da-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_by_Bank_in_Union_City.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_by_Bank_in_Union_City.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998404","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_City_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7885548"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/erie-county/union-city-historic-district-90000417/"}