{"nrhp_refnum":"95000514","name":"College Heights Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Holmes St., Park Ave., Ridge Ave., Sunset Rd., Hillcrest Ave., Woodland Dr. and Mitchell Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"State College","county":"Centre County","state":"PA","lat":40.79832375350006,"lon":-77.87468707389903,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-04-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of early 20th-century houses at the northern edge of the Borough of State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania, adjoining the Pennsylvania State University campus. It contains 319 properties, of which 278 are contributing.","why_significant":"The district is significant in the theme of education because of its association with the founding and growth of the college and the role college faculty, staff and administrators played in developing the neighborhood and the Borough. It is also significant under Criterion C for architecture, as a sampler of late Victorian, early 20th-century and pre-World War II housing styles, including architect-designed houses and mail-order and pattern-book homes.","narrative":"Early 20th-century residential district at the northern edge of State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania, bordering the Penn State campus. Its 319 properties, 278 of them contributing, were built mostly from the 1910s through the 1930s for faculty, staff, and townspeople, with houses ranging from Colonial and Tudor Revival to Craftsman bungalows, Prairie-style Four Squares, and mail-order homes from Sears and Aladdin. Several houses were designed by Penn State faculty, including architect Clarence Bauchspies, who designed more than fourteen properties here, and landscape architects Arthur W. Cowell and Walter Trainer, who laid out gardens and grounds. Set back on wide landscaped lots along tree-lined streets, the district is valued for its architectural variety, its strong association with the university, and the consistency of its streetscapes and plantings.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Mission, Prairie School, International style, with some Victorian and Queen Anne examples","criteria":["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 17:11:36.837983-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/95000514.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000514/7a97e1af5c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000514/7a97e1af5c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Ruhrfisch","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:College_Heights_Historic_District.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruhrfisch</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:College_Heights_Historic_District.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998274","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Heights_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5146415"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/centre-county/college-heights-historic-district-95000514/"}