{"nrhp_refnum":"91001705","name":"Windber Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by the borough line, Cambria Ave., 28th St. and the Big Paint Cr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Windber","county":"Somerset County","state":"PA","lat":40.23701811700005,"lon":-78.8319168289405,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-11-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","European","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A planned company town and historic district in Windber Borough, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, laid out by the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company beginning in 1897 and developed through about 1930. It contains 1,095 resources, 945 of them contributing.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant for its association with the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company and the bituminous coal industry, for its hierarchical company-planned layout that reflected company control, and for its architecture, including high-style buildings and unusually substantial worker housing. It also cites the role of immigrant ethnic communities and the labor unrest of 1906 and 1922 in shaping the town's social history.","narrative":"Windber is a planned coal company town in the narrow Paint Creek valley of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, laid out by the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company in 1897 and built out largely by 1930. The district holds 945 contributing resources, including worker housing of frame construction with weatherboard siding, a hillside enclave of management houses in Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles, and a central business district on Graham Avenue. Notable commercial buildings include the Colonial Revival company headquarters completed in 1903, the Classical Revival Windber Trust Building of 1910, and the Eureka Department Store. Its significance rests on the way the layout and housing expressed company control over workers, and on its contrast with the surrounding patch towns. Immigrant communities organized around churches and fraternal groups, and strikes in 1906 and 1922 are documented as part of the town's labor history.","period_of_significance":"1897-1940","architect_builder":"Berwind-White Coal Mining Company (town planning); Henry Reinhold (architect, Arcadia Theatre)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne; Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"The Eureka Department Store is presently vacant and the company store is vacant; most commercial buildings have been adaptively reused.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.095635-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/91001705.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001705/d8936220d9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001705/d8936220d9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jet Lowe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borough_building_in_Windber.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jet Lowe</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borough_building_in_Windber.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998777","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windber_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8024073"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/somerset-county/windber-historic-district-91001705/"}