Mount Pleasant Historic District

Mount Pleasant is a borough in southern Westmoreland County whose historic district follows Main Street and the side streets that run south from it. Brick buildings erected around 1812 along Main Street are among the earliest surviving in the area, and the town was incorporated in 1828. Commercial blocks from the 1870s to 1910 use red and yellow brick, corbeled cornices and sandstone lintels, and include the Citizens Savings and Trust Company, a Classical Revival bank of 1905. The Shupe Steam Grist Mill dates from about 1843 and still operates with its original steam machinery. Henry Clay Frick worked as a young man in his uncle Martin Overholt's general store on Main Street. The district is also valued for its churches, including Gothic and Romanesque brick buildings from the late 1860s to about 1910, and for the Penn Theater, a 1937 Art Deco building. Together these resources show the town's growth as a local commercial center tied to coal, coke and rail.