{"nrhp_refnum":"96000320","name":"Scottdale Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Walnut St., Constitution Way, Arthur Ave. and Jacob's Cr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Scottdale","county":"Westmoreland County","state":"PA","lat":40.10213350150005,"lon":-79.58930993748552,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-03-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Scottdale Historic District is a borough-wide district in Scottdale, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, containing industrial, commercial and residential resources built from the late nineteenth to mid twentieth century. It lies along Jacob's Creek on the county line with Fayette County.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district illustrates the industrial and commercial growth of Scottdale after the arrival of the railroad in 1873, including coke and iron and steel industries. It also cites the prosperous residential and commercial buildings and the range of architectural styles, including vernacular and high-style examples.","narrative":"Scottdale is a borough in southern Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, laid out in the 1870s on land once known as Fountain Mills. The historic district contains 243 contributing resources, mostly buildings tied to coke, iron and steel manufacturing and to the commercial life that grew around them after the South West Pennsylvania Railroad reached the town in 1873. Industrial complexes along Jacob's Creek include foundry and machine-shop buildings dating from about 1880 onward. Pittsburgh Street holds the main commercial buildings, among them the Central Hotel and the First National Bank. The residential areas include houses of industrial and business leaders, and an 1853 farmhouse is among the earliest surviving buildings. The district is significant for documenting how a small agricultural milling village became one of the largest manufacturing towns in the county.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1853 - 1950","architect_builder":"Fulton, J.C.; Zearly, S.J.","architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Colonial Revival; Late Gothic Revival; Italianate; Renaissance Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Much of the district is in use; the commercial block on the north side of Pittsburgh Street was razed in the 1970s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.616318-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/96000320.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000320/f04ae83ce2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000320/f04ae83ce2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Canadian2006","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scottdale-pennsylvania-corner.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian2006</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scottdale-pennsylvania-corner.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998079","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottdale_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7437581"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/westmoreland-county/scottdale-historic-district-96000320/"}