Honesdale Residential Historic District

Honesdale's north residential district is an intact neighborhood of houses built between about 1830 and 1940, spread along North Main Street and the streets to its east and west. The largest homes, many two and a half stories with wood frames, were built for merchants and managers, while smaller houses were built for working people. The district's architecture includes Queen Anne, Italianate, Shingle, Second Empire and Greek Revival examples. Honesdale became county seat in 1841, and the Delaware and Hudson Canal and coal trade drove the building boom that followed. Local industries, including cut glass and a shoe factory, also shaped the district. Builders William and Frederick Kreitner were responsible for more than fifty houses here. The district is listed for its concentration of buildings that embody these styles and periods of construction, and for the relatively unaltered condition of most of them.