Woodvale Historic District
Why it's listed
Woodvale is a coal company town on the east side of Broad Top Mountain, with most of its buildings in Wood Township, Huntingdon County. The Rockhill Iron and Coal Company opened the nearby Rockhill No. 6 mine in 1890 and built the town to house its miners, which is why the village was laid out in a grid of streets with rows of similar semi-detached workers' houses on long narrow lots. The houses were built of wood frame and plank, and the company owned most of them until it began selling them in 1948. Fulton Street, developed around 1913, has a dense row of nineteen identical semi-detached hipped-roof dwellings and seven small cottages. The district also includes a machine shop, a power house that supplied electricity to Robertsdale and Woodvale, two churches and the Russian Social Hall. The nomination regards the town as a typical example of a southwestern Pennsylvania coal patch and as a record of Eastern European immigrant life in the mining industry.
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| Period of significance | 1890-1942 |
|---|---|
| Styles | Vernacular; company town |
| Areas of significance | European, Architecture, Industry, Community Planning and Development |
| Acreage | 96 |
| Boundary source | NPS cultural-resource GIS polygon |
| Full listing page | Woodvale Historic District (property record) |
What listing means for this property
This is a historic district. Buildings within its boundary are either contributing (they add to the district's significance) or non-contributing. Owners of contributing income-producing buildings can claim the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit; homeowners should look at state credits. National Register districts impose no design review by themselves; a local historic district ordinance, if one exists, does (the difference explained).
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm with your State Historic Preservation Office or a qualified adviser.