Linden Hall Historic District

Linden Hall is a rural village in eastern Harris Township, Centre County, that grew around a grist mill built on Cedar Creek by John Irvin in 1808. Its houses, barns, a church, a school and a small cemetery were built mostly between 1810 and 1919, along Rock Hill and Brush Valley roads. Most of the dwellings are frame or plank, two and a half stories tall, with gable roofs and a modest scale. Two brick Federal-style houses, including Irvin's 1810 house overlooking the mill pond, are the main exceptions. The village was shaped by the arrival of a railroad branch in 1885, which brought a local building boom tied to nearby lumbering. It is regarded as a representative example of a small mill village in central Pennsylvania. Its significance lies in the retention of vernacular buildings with high integrity, spanning more than a century of construction and showing a range of architectural styles. Few intrusions have been built, and the village has remained largely unchanged.