York Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Along Prospect Street southeast of central York, a boundary increase to the York Historic District combines industrial complexes along the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad with a long line of three-story Colonial Revival brick rowhouses built c. 1900-1910. The rows are attached in clusters, with narrow grocer's alleys between some groups and mansard roofs above second-story oriel windows. The industrial buildings include the Jacob Beitzel Lumberyard, a Late Victorian brick building begun c. 1895 and enlarged c. 1900, and the General Machine Works complex at 515 Prospect Street, which includes a c. 1918 office building. The Wolf Supply Company operated from the lumberyard into the mid-1970s. The rowhouses are regarded as typical vernacular examples of middle-class housing that complements the older district. The area was built up between 1903 and 1908 and was largely occupied by factory workers who walked to nearby plants.