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Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, Locomotive Repair Shops, River Road at Chartiers Avenue, McKees Rocks, Allegheny County, PA

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, Locomotive Repair Shops, River Road a...

Significance: This complex was built for the maintenance of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad's steam and later diesel locomotives in 1903. The surviving structures reflect the industrial architectural herita... More

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venango County, PA

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venan...

Significance: Polk State School and Hospital is a collection of approximately ninety structures on a pastoral campus. It was opened in 1897 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Handsome red brick buildings ho... More

Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania Building, 416-420 Seventh Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania Building, 416-420 Seventh Avenue, Pitts...

Significance: This building, which served as Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania's switching hall, may be on the oldest telecommunications facilities still in use in the country. It is an excellent example of the Ro... More

Newmyer House & Barn, 3165 Richey Road, Pennsville, Fayette County, PA

Newmyer House & Barn, 3165 Richey Road, Pennsville, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The ca. 1794 barn is one of western Pennsylvania's oldest surviving stone barns. This type of Pennsylvania bank barn, known as a Sweitzer or Swiss barn, was commonly built into a hillside by eight... More

Blough Farm, 845 Spiegle Road, Hollsopple, Somerset County, PA

Blough Farm, 845 Spiegle Road, Hollsopple, Somerset County, PA

Significance: The Blough Farm provides a picture of a prosperous late-nineteenth century farm, with excellent integrity in the house, barn, and outbuildings. The barn features medallions and painted decoration ... More

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venango County, PA

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venan...

Significance: Polk State School and Hospital is a collection of approximately ninety structures on a pastoral campus. It was opened in 1897 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Handsome red brick buildings ho... More

Taylor-Wilson Manufacturing Company, 500 Thompson Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Taylor-Wilson Manufacturing Company, 500 Thompson Avenue, Pittsburgh, ...

Significance: This building is an early example of a concrete "daylight factory," a building type that revolutionized industrial architectural design at the turn-of-the-last-century. Engineer Robert A. Cummings... More

Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania Building, 416-420 Seventh Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania Building, 416-420 Seventh Avenue, Pitts...

Significance: This building, which served as Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania's switching hall, may be on the oldest telecommunications facilities still in use in the country. It is an excellent example of the Ro... More

Blough Farm, 845 Spiegle Road, Hollsopple, Somerset County, PA

Blough Farm, 845 Spiegle Road, Hollsopple, Somerset County, PA

Significance: The Blough Farm provides a picture of a prosperous late-nineteenth century farm, with excellent integrity in the house, barn, and outbuildings. The barn features medallions and painted decoration ... More

H.J. Heinz Company Factories, 300 Heinz Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

H.J. Heinz Company Factories, 300 Heinz Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny ...

Significance: Henry J. Heinz revolutionized the food processing industry and built his business into a global conglomerate from this site beginning in 1888. The industrial complex documented here represents the... More

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venango County, PA

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venan...

Significance: Polk State School and Hospital is a collection of approximately ninety structures on a pastoral campus. It was opened in 1897 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Handsome red brick buildings ho... More

Friendship Hill, 223 New Geneva Road, Point Marion, Fayette County, PA

Friendship Hill, 223 New Geneva Road, Point Marion, Fayette County, PA

See also Gallatin Sawmill-Eberhart Grist Mill, HAER PA-582. Significance: Friendship Hill is the home of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), a Swiss émigré who rose from a western Pennsylvania legislator to the Secret... More

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venango County, PA

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venan...

Significance: Polk State School and Hospital is a collection of approximately ninety structures on a pastoral campus. It was opened in 1897 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Handsome red brick buildings ho... More

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venango County, PA

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venan...

Significance: Polk State School and Hospital is a collection of approximately ninety structures on a pastoral campus. It was opened in 1897 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Handsome red brick buildings ho... More

H.J. Heinz Company Factories, 300 Heinz Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

H.J. Heinz Company Factories, 300 Heinz Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny ...

Significance: Henry J. Heinz revolutionized the food processing industry and built his business into a global conglomerate from this site beginning in 1888. The industrial complex documented here represents the... More

Friendship Hill, 223 New Geneva Road, Point Marion, Fayette County, PA

Friendship Hill, 223 New Geneva Road, Point Marion, Fayette County, PA

See also Gallatin Sawmill-Eberhart Grist Mill, HAER PA-582. Significance: Friendship Hill is the home of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), a Swiss émigré who rose from a western Pennsylvania legislator to the Secret... More

H.J. Heinz Company Factories, 300 Heinz Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

H.J. Heinz Company Factories, 300 Heinz Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny ...

Significance: Henry J. Heinz revolutionized the food processing industry and built his business into a global conglomerate from this site beginning in 1888. The industrial complex documented here represents the... More

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, Locomotive Repair Shops, River Road at Chartiers Avenue, McKees Rocks, Allegheny County, PA

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, Locomotive Repair Shops, River Road a...

Significance: This complex was built for the maintenance of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad's steam and later diesel locomotives in 1903. The surviving structures reflect the industrial architectural herita... More

H.J. Heinz Company Factories, 300 Heinz Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

H.J. Heinz Company Factories, 300 Heinz Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny ...

Significance: Henry J. Heinz revolutionized the food processing industry and built his business into a global conglomerate from this site beginning in 1888. The industrial complex documented here represents the... More

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, Locomotive Repair Shops, River Road at Chartiers Avenue, McKees Rocks, Allegheny County, PA

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, Locomotive Repair Shops, River Road a...

Significance: This complex was built for the maintenance of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad's steam and later diesel locomotives in 1903. The surviving structures reflect the industrial architectural herita... More

Newmyer House & Barn, 3165 Richey Road, Pennsville, Fayette County, PA

Newmyer House & Barn, 3165 Richey Road, Pennsville, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The ca. 1794 barn is one of western Pennsylvania's oldest surviving stone barns. This type of Pennsylvania bank barn, known as a Sweitzer or Swiss barn, was commonly built into a hillside by eight... More

Newmyer House & Barn, 3165 Richey Road, Pennsville, Fayette County, PA

Newmyer House & Barn, 3165 Richey Road, Pennsville, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The ca. 1794 barn is one of western Pennsylvania's oldest surviving stone barns. This type of Pennsylvania bank barn, known as a Sweitzer or Swiss barn, was commonly built into a hillside by eight... More

Friendship Hill, 223 New Geneva Road, Point Marion, Fayette County, PA

Friendship Hill, 223 New Geneva Road, Point Marion, Fayette County, PA

See also Gallatin Sawmill-Eberhart Grist Mill, HAER PA-582. Significance: Friendship Hill is the home of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), a Swiss émigré who rose from a western Pennsylvania legislator to the Secret... More

Taylor-Wilson Manufacturing Company, 500 Thompson Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Taylor-Wilson Manufacturing Company, 500 Thompson Avenue, Pittsburgh, ...

Significance: This building is an early example of a concrete "daylight factory," a building type that revolutionized industrial architectural design at the turn-of-the-last-century. Engineer Robert A. Cummings... More

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, Locomotive Repair Shops, River Road at Chartiers Avenue, McKees Rocks, Allegheny County, PA

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, Locomotive Repair Shops, River Road a...

Significance: This complex was built for the maintenance of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad's steam and later diesel locomotives in 1903. The surviving structures reflect the industrial architectural herita... More

Friendship Hill, 223 New Geneva Road, Point Marion, Fayette County, PA

Friendship Hill, 223 New Geneva Road, Point Marion, Fayette County, PA

See also Gallatin Sawmill-Eberhart Grist Mill, HAER PA-582. Significance: Friendship Hill is the home of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), a Swiss émigré who rose from a western Pennsylvania legislator to the Secret... More

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venango County, PA

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venan...

Significance: Polk State School and Hospital is a collection of approximately ninety structures on a pastoral campus. It was opened in 1897 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Handsome red brick buildings ho... More

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, Locomotive Repair Shops, River Road at Chartiers Avenue, McKees Rocks, Allegheny County, PA

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, Locomotive Repair Shops, River Road a...

Significance: This complex was built for the maintenance of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad's steam and later diesel locomotives in 1903. The surviving structures reflect the industrial architectural herita... More

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venango County, PA

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venan...

Significance: Polk State School and Hospital is a collection of approximately ninety structures on a pastoral campus. It was opened in 1897 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Handsome red brick buildings ho... More

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venango County, PA

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venan...

Significance: Polk State School and Hospital is a collection of approximately ninety structures on a pastoral campus. It was opened in 1897 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Handsome red brick buildings ho... More

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venango County, PA

Polk State School & Hospital, Main Street at School Drive, Polk, Venan...

Significance: Polk State School and Hospital is a collection of approximately ninety structures on a pastoral campus. It was opened in 1897 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Handsome red brick buildings ho... More

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, Locomotive Repair Shops, River Road at Chartiers Avenue, McKees Rocks, Allegheny County, PA

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, Locomotive Repair Shops, River Road a...

Significance: This complex was built for the maintenance of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad's steam and later diesel locomotives in 1903. The surviving structures reflect the industrial architectural herita... More