Coudersport Historic District

Coudersport is a borough wedged into a valley of Pennsylvania's Allegheny Plateau, where its downtown blocks on Main and Second Streets were rebuilt in brick Victorian style after a fire in 1880 destroyed much of the earlier wooden Greek Revival core. The district includes commercial buildings, residences, three churches, the Potter County Courthouse and the Coudersport Consistory. Buildings average two stories with substantial attics, and cornices carry brackets, corbeling and hood molds in contrasting paint. The town is regarded as the finest surviving example of a 19th-century small county seat in the county. Its streetscapes remained largely intact after the lumber boom faded, and residents of the town were active in the underground railroad, sheltering people fleeing slavery. The district is also significant for its Queen Anne and Victorian houses, many built along North Main Street by prominent businessmen.