Huntingdon Borough Historic District is a national

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located at

Huntingdon Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district in Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by King John in 1205. It was the county town of the historic county of Huntingdonshire. Oliver Cromwell was born there ...

Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania Huntingdon County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,092. Its county seat is Huntingdon. The county was created on September 20, 1787, mainly from the northern part of Bedford Count ...

. The district includes 521 contributing buildings in the

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and surrounding residential areas of Huntingdon. They date from the late-18th century to the early-20th century, and are primarily two- and three-story brick or frame structures. The buildings are reflective of popular architectural styles including

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, and Queen Anne. Notable buildings include the county jail (1829), Union Depot (1872), Penn Hunt Hotel (1873-1874), switching tower (c. 1900), Fisher and McMurtie's Store (c. 1850), Reed's Drug Store (1865), Port Building (1875), Iron Front Store (1884), and Blair Building (1889). ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the

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in 1986.

2020 Fire

On May 12, 2020, at approximately midnight, the workshop area of the Blair Building caught fire. More than a hundred people lost their apartments and the entire building was declared a loss.

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All of the following are located in Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, PA: * * * * * * Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Historic districts in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania Huntingdon, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-NRHP-stub