Uptown Somerset Historic District

Centred on the Somerset County Courthouse at the top of a hill in the Borough of Somerset, Pennsylvania, this district holds 177 contributing properties, including Union Cemetery and the Soldiers Monument. The courthouse, a Classical Revival limestone building completed in 1907 by J.C. Fulton of Uniontown, anchors an intersection flanked by two bank buildings: the 1906 Somerset Trust Company and the 1922 First National Bank, both Classical or Italian Renaissance in style. Most buildings date from after the 1876 fire that destroyed much of the commercial section south of Union Street. Its Italianate, Queen Anne, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival and Colonial Revival houses and churches show the town's growth from the early nineteenth century to the mid twentieth. The district is listed for its architecture and for its association with county government and banking, which grew with the coal and transportation industries. Its commercial and residential areas remain largely intact, although some sites along West Main Street were lost to new construction and parking lots.