Wick Avenue Historic District

This 18-acre district in central Youngstown groups three parallel streets: Wick Avenue, Bryson Street and Wick Oval. Wick Avenue holds large mansions in styles including Neo-Georgian, Queen Anne, Italianate Villa, Shingle and Mission, built between about 1864 and 1912. Several belonged to families central to the Mahoning Valley iron and steel industry. George D. Wick, founding president of Youngstown Sheet and Tube, built the northernmost house on the west side, completed in 1912. Members of the Arms family and Porter Pollock, son of an early blast furnace builder, built others. Bryson Street offers smaller upper-middle-class houses from 1860 to 1900 that complement the mansions. Wick Oval, platted in 1901 with houses built from 1902 to 1906, is an early planned unit development and is generally understood to have housed servants of the Wick Avenue households, though documentation is limited. Its houses are plain, but the oval forms a distinctive urban space. The district is considered the last remaining part of the city's leading nineteenth-century residential street.