{"nrhp_refnum":"92000391","name":"Robertsdale Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by USGS 1840 contour line, S. Main, Wood, Lincoln, Cliff and Cherry Sts., Wood Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Robertsdale","county":"Huntingdon County","state":"PA","lat":40.18206557650004,"lon":-78.1153342900177,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-05-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Community Planning and Development","Industry"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district encompassing most of the coal company town of Robertsdale in southwest Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, laid out in 1873 by the Rockhill Iron and Coal Company. It includes company houses, a company store, office, depot, post office, hotel, school and theatre along the East Broad Top Rail Road.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be a typical Pennsylvania coal patch town with company-built housing, a company store and office, and an intact concentration of mining town architecture. Its mine site retains structural remains with potential to yield archaeological information on mining operations. It is also linked to the East Broad Top Railroad, which is described as a National Landmark.","narrative":"Robertsdale is a coal company town on the east side of Broad Top Mountain in southwest Huntingdon County, laid out in 1873 by the Rockhill Iron and Coal Company. Most of its roughly 95 surviving company houses date from about 1873 to 1925 and are mostly semi-detached wood frame buildings set at the front of long narrow lots. The town also includes a company store built in 1873-4 of local buff stone, a cast stone company office of about 1914, a 1914 cast stone depot, a hotel, a school and a theatre. The company controlled the land, the store and the railroad that carried coal to Mt. Union, and it used restrictive covenants in leases and deeds to limit union activity. The town is regarded as a representative example of a Pennsylvania coal patch town, and its mine site holds remains that could inform study of mining methods.","period_of_significance":"1873-1948","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":"Company store stands vacant for years and is in poor condition; the Post Office building has been vacant for some time; the depot has been restored; the hotel remains in use as a hotel; the company houses are mostly owner occupied.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.205508-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/92000391.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000391/ec7e4c96f7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000391/ec7e4c96f7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jet Lowe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robertsdale_Hotel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jet Lowe</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robertsdale_Hotel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993063","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertsdale_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7352071"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/huntingdon-county/robertsdale-historic-district-92000391/"}