Danville West Market Street Historic District

West Market Street in Danville is a residential district of about eleven acres overlooking the North Branch of the Susquehanna River. Its houses were built between about 1800 and 1925, when the neighborhood developed as a middle-class area beside the town's growing iron works and transport links, including the North Branch Canal and several rail lines. Within the district are Federal brick and frame houses, Greek Revival townhouses, Italianate dwellings, and later Second Empire, Queen Anne, Victorian Eclectic, Shingle and Colonial Revival homes. The William Hancock house at 11 West Market Street, a stone Second Empire mansion built in the early 1870s, is a textbook example of its style, while the Baldy house at 100 West Market Street is the largest dwelling in the district. Because few later buildings intrude on Market Street, the streetscape retains a continuous record of nineteenth-century domestic architecture.