Charles B. Dudley House, 802 Lexington Avenue, Altoona, Blair County, PA

Significance: The two-and-a-half story, side-passage house at 802 Lexington Ave. is representative of one type of housing stock found throughout Altoona, although most surviving examples are of brick veneer rather than brick. Built as rental property in 1872, the house has a brief historical association with the chemist Charles B. Dudley (1842-1909), who purchased the property in 1896 and resided there from 1902 until his death in 1909. Dudley established the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's testing laboratory in Altoona, pioneering the use of applied science in industry. He was also a founding member of the American Society for Testing Materials and from 1902 until 1909 served as the organization's first president.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-307

Survey number: HABS PA-5502

Building/structure dates: 1871- 1872 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: before 1894 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: ca. 1906 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1949 Subsequent Work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76001605

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