East York Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located at Springettsbury Township in

York County, Pennsylvania York County ( Pennsylvania Dutch: Yarrick Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 456,438. Its county seat is York. The county was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster ...

. The district includes 262 contributing buildings in the residential community of

East York East York is a former administrative district and municipality within Toronto, Ontario, Canada. From 1967 to 1998, it was officially the Borough of East York, a semi-autonomous borough within the upper-tier municipality of Metropolitan Toron ...

. The community was laid out in 1903, but the houses primarily built in the 1930s and 1940s. The community includes notable examples of

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archit ...

Tudor Revival Tudor Revival architecture (also known as mock Tudor in the UK) first manifested itself in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture ...

, and

Prairie School Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in ...

style dwellings. The district also includes the former school (1912), a three-story

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

-style

apartment An apartment (American English), or flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single story. There are ma ...

building (1936), and Advent Church. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1999. File:Apt on Mkt East York YorkCo PA.JPG, Apartment building on Market Street File:Advent Lutheran East York YorkCo PA.JPG, Advent Lutheran Church File:1925 Market, East York YorkCo PA.JPG, 1925 Market File:2125 Wewe East York YorkCo PA.JPG, Tudor-style house File:School East York PA.JPG, Hiestand School

References

{{Clear Colonial Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Historic districts in York County, Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Prairie School architecture in Pennsylvania Springettsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania Tudor Revival architecture in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in York County, Pennsylvania