The Bedford Historic District is a national

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

located in

Bedford Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population was 106,940. Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire and seat of the Borough of Bedford local government district. Bedford was founded at a ford (crossin ...

Bedford County, Pennsylvania Bedford County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 47,577. The county seat is Bedford. The county is part of the Southwest region of the commonwealth. History 18th century According to ...

. The district includes two hundred and ten contributing buildings in the

central business district A central business district (CBD) is the Commerce, commercial and business center 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 wit ...

and surrounding residential areas of Bedford. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1983. ''Note:'' This includes

History and features

The buildings date between 1750 and 1930, and include notable examples of

Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...

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

and Federal style architecture. Notable non-residential buildings include the oldest building in Bedford County: Fortified Bedford House (1758), Fort Bedford Museum (in the style of the 1750s ~ the building itself was constructed in 1958), Neptune House (c. 1880), G. C. Murphy Company Building (c. 1875), Arnold Building (c. 1870), Victoria House (1876), Bedford Cafe (c. 1875), Talvin Lodge (1880), Penn Bedford Hotel (1922), Ford Garage (1922), and St. Thomas the Apostle Church (c. 1817). Located in the district and listed separately are the Barclay House, Espy House, Russell House, and Chalybeate Springs Hotel. It was added to the

in 1983.

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{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Federal architecture in Pennsylvania Greek Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Historic districts in Bedford County, Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Bedford County, Pennsylvania