Greensboro Historic District

Greensboro sits on a bend of the Monongahela River in southeastern Greene County, Pennsylvania, on a grid of streets laid out in 1791 by Elias Stone. The district contains 36 buildings, one structure and one archaeological site, mostly frame houses with some log and brick buildings and one stone church. Early houses include two-thirds Georgian and two-room plan examples, while later buildings show Italianate, Queen Anne, Prairie and Bungalow styles. The town was a glassmaking and stoneware pottery centre in the nineteenth century, and its river trade grew after slackwater navigation reached the area in 1856. The Thomas Reppert Store and House, built in 1874, is among the most distinctive Italianate buildings in the district. The James Hamilton pottery site, a waste deposit from about fifty years of production, is significant for archaeological research. Greensboro was the district's main river port until the late nineteenth century.