Meadville Downtown Historic District

Centred on The Diamond, the common laid out in Meadville's original 1790s town plat, this downtown district holds a dense group of buildings from the early nineteenth century to about 1940. The Greek Revival Reynolds structure of about 1843 stands beside the courthouse, while the 1835 Independent Congregational Church, now the Unitarian Church, sits on the south side of the green. Commercial blocks along Chestnut Street show the High Victorian Italianate style, and the 1870 Market House on Market Street, raised with a second storey in 1917, is still used by local growers and craftsmen. The district is significant for its record of settlement and growth, linked to the Holland Land Company and to families such as the Huidekoper and Reynolds. Its range of styles, many still with substantial original fabric, gives a broad view of how a regional market town developed through the oil boom and rail expansion.