The Stoystown Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Stoystown in

Somerset County, Pennsylvania Somerset County (Pennsylvania German: ''Somerset Kaundi'') is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 74,129. Its county seat is Somerset. The county was created from part of Bedford County on A ...

. 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 ...

in 2001.

History and architectural features

This district includes eighty-one contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and one contributing object. It encompasses central business district and surrounding residential areas in Stoystown with structures that date primarily from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Notable non-residential buildings include the Grace Lutheran Church (1888), St. Paul's United Church of Christ (1897), the John Griffin Building (c. 1880), the Laurel Bank (1922), the former Custer House (c. 1830/1870), the H.J. Specht Hardware building (c. 1920), the former IOOF Hall (c. 1900), and a former public school (1929). The contributing sites are the Union Cemetery (c. 1796) and Stoystown-Quemahoning Township Area Recreation Park (c. 1930). The contributing object is a

Lincoln Highway The Lincoln Highway is the first transcontinental highway in the United States and one of the first highways designed expressly for automobiles. Conceived in 1912 by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, and formally dedicated October 31, 1913 ...

marker (1928). Located in the district but listed separately is the

Hite House Hite House is a historic hotel building located at Stoystown, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It is a -story, "L"-shaped, wood-frame building with a brick veneer on a stone foundation. It features a 12 foot deep, one-story porch across the front ...

, which dates to 1853. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the

in 2001.

References

{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Queen Anne architecture in Pennsylvania Historic districts in Somerset County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Somerset County, Pennsylvania