{"nrhp_refnum":"99000324","name":"Moxham Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Dupont St., Linden Av., Village St., Park and Coleman Avs.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Johnstown","county":"Cambria County","state":"PA","lat":40.29792694550005,"lon":-78.90834958399563,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-03-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A neighborhood historic district of about 20 street blocks in southern Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, centered on the former Johnson Company rolling mill community known as Moxham. It contains 364 resources, of which 330 are contributing, mostly houses, carriage houses, churches and a few commercial buildings.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant for its association with the Johnson Company and the industrial neighborhood it planned and built for mill workers and managers, and for its architecture, which includes a wide range of residential styles and many churches, some designed by Johnstown architect Walter R. Myton. The company's paternalist planning, including parks, transportation and public services, is presented as unusual among Johnstown's company neighborhoods.","narrative":"Moxham is a planned industrial neighborhood on the east side of Stoney Creek in southern Johnstown, laid out on a street grid in 1887 and 1888 by the Johnson Company to house workers at its new rolling mill. The company bought farmland from the Von Lunen family, and it paid for surveys, streets, a central park called Von Lunen Grove, a dance and dining hall, and a bowling alley. Managers built large Queen Anne and Second Empire houses north of the park, while working-class families settled in modest single and double houses to the south. The district is regarded as one of Johnstown's best examples of period architecture across a range of social levels, with Four Square, Prairie and Colonial Revival houses, carriage houses and ten churches. Architect Walter R. Myton designed many of its buildings. The neighborhood is also associated with the rise of the steel trackwork industry in the late nineteenth century, through the Johnson Company and its successors Loraine Steel and U.S. Steel.","period_of_significance":"1870 - 1948","architect_builder":"Myton, Walter R.; Grodavent Bros.","architectural_style":"Second Empire, Queen Anne, Prairie, Four Square, Bungalow, Tudor, Dutch Revival, Gothic Revival, Classical, Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"A large vacant school and a recently renovated mixed-use building are included in the district; the former Johnson Company plant lies outside the district.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.553805-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/99000324.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000324/c684f35fa5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000324/c684f35fa5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cauffiel_House_(Johnstown,_Pennsylvania).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Generic1139</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:Cauffiel_House_(Johnstown,_Pennsylvania).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995994","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxham_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6927486"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/cambria-county/moxham-historic-district-99000324/"}