Scottdale 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 Scottdale,

Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Westmoreland County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 364,663. The county seat is Greensburg. Formed from, successively, Lancaster, Northumberland, and later Bedford co ...

. It encompasses 242 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the

central business district A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...

and surrounding residential areas of Scottdale. They were built between about 1853 and 1950, and includes a mix of residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial properties. They are in a variety of popular architectural styles including

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...

, Queen Anne, and

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 archi ...

. Notable buildings include the Duraloy Technologies complex, Uptegraff Manufacturing Company, Scottsdale Savings and Trust (1907), DeMuth Flowers (1887), Loucks Hardware Company (c. 1880), Cossels Food Mart (1914), Frick Coke Company offices (1887, 1906), Broadway Drug Store (c. 1935), Calvin United Presbyterian Church (1898), First Baptist Church (1906), former high school (c. 1920), A.K. Stauffer House (c. 1880), E.H. Reid House (1905-1910), and a

Lustron house Lustron houses are prefabricated enameled steel houses developed in the post-World War II era United States in response to the shortage of homes for returning G.I.s by Chicago industrialist and inventor Carl Strandlund. Considered low-maintenan ...

(1950). ''Note:'' This includes It was added to 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 1996.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Italianate architecture in Pennsylvania Queen Anne architecture in Pennsylvania Colonial Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Historic districts in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-NRHP-stub