Vandergrift 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 Vandergrift,

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 625 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites in Vandergrift. They were built between about 1895 and 1925, and includes a mix of residential, commercial, and institutional properties. They are in a variety of popular architectural styles including Romanesque, 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 ...

, and laid out on a plan developed by

Frederick Law Olmsted Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is considered to be the father of landscape architecture in the USA. Olmsted was famous for co- ...

. Notable non-residential buildings include the Casino, train station, company office building, and churches. The two contributing sites are landscaped parks. ''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 1995.

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* * * Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Romanesque Revival 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