North Hill Historic District

Residential neighborhood on a steep bluff above downtown New Castle, containing 1,888 buildings and one concrete bridge, most built between 1890 and 1930. Its houses were built largely for managers and executives of the city's iron, steel and tin industries, and the larger homes include brick and stone mansions with detailed ornamentation. The district is regarded as the best surviving reflection of New Castle's industrial origins, since the mills and factories that drove the local economy were largely removed in the 1980s and 1990s. Its architecture includes Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Neoclassical and Craftsman styles, and the district contains 1,729 contributing resources. Major residences include the Second Empire house at 315 N. Mercer Street and the Colonial Revival mansion at 316 Rhodes Place, built for Edward and Mary Elizabeth King about 1903. Neshannock Heights, a speculative subdivision platted in 1897, shows the middle-class housing that developed on the upper hill.