Moxham Historic District

Moxham is a planned industrial neighborhood on the east side of Stoney Creek in southern Johnstown, laid out on a street grid in 1887 and 1888 by the Johnson Company to house workers at its new rolling mill. The company bought farmland from the Von Lunen family, and it paid for surveys, streets, a central park called Von Lunen Grove, a dance and dining hall, and a bowling alley. Managers built large Queen Anne and Second Empire houses north of the park, while working-class families settled in modest single and double houses to the south. The district is regarded as one of Johnstown's best examples of period architecture across a range of social levels, with Four Square, Prairie and Colonial Revival houses, carriage houses and ten churches. Architect Walter R. Myton designed many of its buildings. The neighborhood is also associated with the rise of the steel trackwork industry in the late nineteenth century, through the Johnson Company and its successors Loraine Steel and U.S. Steel.