{"nrhp_refnum":"92000942","name":"Woodvale Historic District","other_names":["See Also:East Broad Top Railroad"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Ash, High, North, Fulton and Broad Sts., Wood, Wells and Broad Top Townships","address_restricted":false,"city":"Woodvale","county":"Huntingdon County","state":"PA","lat":40.16756608100005,"lon":-78.13766858644382,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-07-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["European","Architecture","Industry","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Woodvale is a historic coal company town on the east side of Broad Top Mountain in the Allegheny Mountains, mainly in Wood Township, Huntingdon County, with parts extending into Wells Township, Fulton County and Broad Top Township, Bedford County. The district contains miners' housing, industrial buildings, churches, a social hall, a post office and a mule barn, mostly built c. 1890-1940.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant in the areas of industry, architecture, community development and ethnic heritage. It was built by the Rockhill Iron and Coal Company to house miners at its Rockhill No. 6 mine, and it is presented as a typical southwestern Pennsylvania coal patch town with a concentration of company-built dwellings. Its churches, social hall and neighborhoods reflect the Eastern European immigrant workforce.","narrative":"Woodvale is a coal company town on the east side of Broad Top Mountain, with most of its buildings in Wood Township, Huntingdon County. The Rockhill Iron and Coal Company opened the nearby Rockhill No. 6 mine in 1890 and built the town to house its miners, which is why the village was laid out in a grid of streets with rows of similar semi-detached workers' houses on long narrow lots. The houses were built of wood frame and plank, and the company owned most of them until it began selling them in 1948. Fulton Street, developed around 1913, has a dense row of nineteen identical semi-detached hipped-roof dwellings and seven small cottages. The district also includes a machine shop, a power house that supplied electricity to Robertsdale and Woodvale, two churches and the Russian Social Hall. The nomination regards the town as a typical example of a southwestern Pennsylvania coal patch and as a record of Eastern European immigrant life in the mining industry.","period_of_significance":"1890-1942","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular; company town","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The machine shop and mule barn are described as currently abandoned and in disrepair; the furniture factory occupies the former power house; the company store burned in 1937 and the two schools were demolished.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.127617-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/92000942.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000942/e9c48f2ec4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000942/e9c48f2ec4-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jet Lowe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post_office_in_Woodvale.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jet Lowe</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post_office_in_Woodvale.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993077","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodvale_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8033501"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/huntingdon-county/woodvale-historic-district-92000942/"}