{"nrhp_refnum":"92000386","name":"Saltsburg Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, W of Plum and Walnut Alleys to Kiskiminetas R.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saltsburg","county":"Indiana County","state":"PA","lat":40.486165707000055,"lon":-79.45187815204625,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-05-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 48 acres in the borough of Saltsburg, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Kiskiminetas and Conemaugh Rivers, containing 118 contributing and 32 non-contributing buildings, one structure, one site and fifteen objects. It is predominantly a nineteenth and early twentieth century residential community with a small commercial core and several churches.","why_significant":"The district is significant in transportation, architecture, commerce and archaeology. It developed around the Pennsylvania Canal (opened 1829) and the later railroad, and its canal-era and railroad-era buildings form a largely intact vernacular townscape. Excavated remnants of Lock No. 8 are regarded as able to yield information on canal construction and technology.","narrative":"Saltsburg's historic district covers about 48 acres of the oldest part of the borough, a crescent of streets fronting on or west of Salt Street. Most of its 118 contributing buildings are wood frame, with some brick and stone, and they date from the 1820s through the 1930s. The town grew after the Pennsylvania Canal opened through it in 1829, with Lock No. 8 at the end of Salt Street, and many canal-era dwellings and stores were oriented toward the waterway, which served as a second main street. The Western Pennsylvania Railroad arrived along Plum and Walnut Alleys in the 1860s and was moved to the old towpath in 1882, prompting an 1880s building boom that replaced some canal-era construction with Victorian buildings of similar scale. Commercial and industrial activity, including salt production, coal and milling, shaped the town's economy. Archaeological excavations of Lock No. 8 in 1990 located remnants of the lock structure, which is why the district is regarded as important for canal history.","period_of_significance":"1829-1941","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republican/Federal; Other/Canal Vernacular; Late Victorian/Italianate; Late Victorian/Queen Anne/Eastlake; Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals/Classical Revival; Late 19th & Early 20th Century Movements/Commercial Style; Late 19th & Early 20th Century Movements/Bungalow; Other/Late 19th & Early 20th Century Vernacular","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Commercial uses concentrated on Salt and Point Streets; the Borough maintains the former canal bed as Canal Park; 29 buildings of new construction since the early 1950s are non-contributing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.490951-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/92000386.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000386/df54d4eec9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000386/df54d4eec9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"C J Pro at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"C J Pro at en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saltsburg.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998041","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltsburg_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7406199"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/indiana-county/saltsburg-historic-district-92000386/"}