Hollidaysburg Historic District

Hollidaysburg's historic district covers the older core of a county seat set on hilly ground above the Beaverdam Branch of the Juniata River, laid out on a grid in 1796 around a central square called the Diamond. It contains 457 buildings, and the nomination stresses their integrity and their number. Canal and railroad trade after 1832 brought warehouses, hotels and banks, and the county seat drew lawyers who later became judges and legislators. The district's architecture ranges from brick Federal houses and Greek Revival dwellings to Italianate, Second Empire, Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne and early twentieth-century Colonial Revival buildings. Notable works include the 1877 Gothic Revival courthouse, the 1869-70 Presbyterian Church and the 1902 Citizen's National Bank. Many Allegheny Street commercial buildings survive largely intact, giving a clear view of nineteenth-century business construction in the town.