Academy Hill Historic District

Stroudsburg's Academy Hill district is a residential neighborhood of 140 principal buildings north of Main Street and the Monroe County Courthouse, mostly built between 1875 and 1923 on lots averaging 50 by 100 feet. Its houses are largely wood frame with slate gable roofs, and many are two and a half stories tall. Queen Anne-inspired houses with steep gables, jigsawn ornament and porches predominate, alongside American Foursquares and Colonial Revival houses. The district developed after the Civil War as a middle-class suburb, aided by trolley service and public utilities installed in the 1880s. Thomas Street, Scott Street and Sarah Street, which contains the district's earliest surviving houses, form its core. The district is regarded as an unusually well-preserved example of late 19th-century residential design in the county, with original slate roofs, porches and wood detailing largely intact.