Downtown Johnstown Historic District

Downtown Johnstown Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Downtown Johnstown, February 2006

Location	Bounded by Washington, Clinton, Bedford, Vine, Market, Locust and Walnut Sts., Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°19′30″N 78°55′07″W / 40.32500°N 78.91861°W / 40.32500; -78.91861Coordinates: 40°19′30″N 78°55′07″W / 40.32500°N 78.91861°W / 40.32500; -78.91861
Area	50 acres (20 ha)
Built	1889
Architectural style	Second Empire, Art Deco, Romanesque
NRHP Reference #	92000941^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 7, 1992

Downtown Johnstown Historic District is a national historic district located at Johnstown in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 109 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Johnstown. The district includes some buildings dated before the Johnstown Flood, but the majority date from 1890 to 1930. Notable buildings include the Alma Hall (1884), Bantley Building (1888), Stenger Dry Goods Store (1883), Widmann Building (1892), Cambria Iron Office Building (1881, 1885), St. Vincent DePaul Building (c. 1900), Swank Building (1907), Glosser Brothers Department Store (1905), Johnstown City Hall (1900), former U.S. Post Office (1912), State Theater (1926), U.S. Post Office (1938), Franklin Street United Methodist Church (1869), St. John Gualbert Cathedral (1896), First United Methodist Church (1911), Elks Building (1903), and Moose Building (1917). Located in the district and listed separately are the Cambria Public Library Building, G.A.R. Hall, and Nathan's Department Store.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.^[1]

Gallery

Downtown Johnstown, May 2010
St. John Gualbert Cathedral

References

1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Jonathan E. Daily (April 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Downtown Johnstown Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-12-08.

External links

All of the following are located in Johnstown, Cambria County, PA:

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-5669, "City of Johnstown", 45 data pages
HABS No. PA-5670, "Downtown Neighborhood", 2 photos, 30 data pages, 1 photo caption page
HABS No. PA-5387, "Johnstown City Hall, Northeast corner of Main & Market Streets", 1 photo, 6 data pages, 1 photo caption page
HABS No. PA-5386, "Johnstown Public Library, 304 Washington Street", 2 photos, 9 data pages, 1 photo caption page
HABS No. PA-5390, "U.S. Post Office, 131 Market Street", 2 photos, 10 data pages, 1 photo caption page
HABS No. PA-5385, "L. H. Mayer Building, 414 Locust Street", 1 photo, 11 data pages, 1 photo caption page
HABS No. PA-5676, "St. John Goulbert Roman Catholic Church, 117 Clinton Street", 1 photo
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. PA-168, "Penn Traffic Building, 319 Washington Street", 2 photos, 10 data pages, 1 photo caption page

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