Glen Rock Historic District

Glen Rock is a borough in York County, Pennsylvania, whose houses, shops and civic buildings climb the hills above the Codorus Creek valley. Its built history runs from the Northern Central Railway's completion in 1838 through the early twentieth century. Most of the district's contributing buildings date from between the Civil War and the First World War, when the population roughly quadrupled. Early vernacular Germanic and Georgian farmhouses and industrialists' residences survive from the mid-nineteenth century, including a stone house built circa 1850 by William H. Heathcote. The district's most elaborate house is the "Castle" on Cottage Avenue, built in 1889 by Joseph Dise, who developed the street. Industrial buildings, including the 1916 Industrial Sewing Company factory on Baltimore Street, and the Peoples Bank of Glen Rock, built in 1912, show the town's manufacturing and commercial history. Its streetscape of closely spaced houses on steep slopes is considered distinctive.