North Hill Historic District

North Hill is a compact residential neighborhood in Mingo Junction, Ohio, laid out by the Carnegie Steel Co. in 1918 as the North Hill Addition. Its 33 brick buildings include single-family houses, reserved for factory supervisors, and four-family apartment buildings occupied by steel workers. The company planned the area to give employees good housing in a pleasant setting, placed away from industry and commercial development though not far from the mill. No other neighborhood in the city shows the same level of planning, quality, integrity or uniformity. The houses vary in design but share hip or gable roofs, overhanging eaves, front porches, brackets, dormers and shaped windows in different combinations. Consistent scale, setback and materials give the district a distinctive look that survives today. Carnegie Steel kept ownership of the buildings until the mid-1940s, when the plant was sold to Wheeling Steel Co., which began selling off individual parcels. The district is valued as the city's only planned mill housing neighborhood.