Thursday 07/03/2008
Of the dozens of historic districts we have visited in recent months across PA, NY and NJ, the western-most block of Liberty Street in the Franklin Historic District is arguably the "most appealing" residential setting we encountered. [City of Franklin, Venango County, PA]

Tuesday 07/01/2008
MOST-VISITED NEIGHBORHOODS
Of more than 1,100 Bucks County Neighborhoods on Living Places, these are the five most-frequented by site vistors during June 2008.

1. Makefield Glen
2. Flowers Mill
3. Heacock Meadows
4. Heritage Creek
5. Villas at Shady Brook

Monday 06/30/2008
The William Austin House, built in 1870, is architecturally significantly as an outstanding example of Second Empire style domestic architecture in the village of Trumansburg, Tompkins County (NY). Characterized by a prominent, slate-clad Mansard roof, polychrome masonry construction, asymmetrical massing and elaborate, Victorian era ornamentation, it embodies all of the distinctive characteristics of the type and period.

Sunday 06/29/2008
Updated — The Waterford Historic District is architecturally significant as an intact concentration of high-style, nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture. [Waterford Boro, Erie County, PA]

Saturday 06/28/2008
Updated — Clearfield's Old Town Historic District is the area on Front Street from Pine Street to Walnut Street and was designated an historic district because it is the largest concentration of Victorian houses, the majority unaltered, built from 1860 to 1890 and all on their original sites. [Borough of Clearfield, PA]

Friday 06/27/2008
The Oil City North Side Historic District was home to a broad and socially diverse spectrum of individuals associated with the petroleum industry, ranging from rig, pipeline, refinery, and other workers to corporate leaders associated with giants including John D. Rockefeller's National Transit Company.

Oil City's South Side Historic District conveys a clear and identifiable architectural and historical cohesion through its design, setting, workmanship, materials, and association. Oil City was at the center of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century oil industry from 1863-1945, with oil-related activity beginning in the district shortly after Col. Edwin L. Drake's drilling of the first successful commercial oil well at nearby Titusville in 1859.

The Oil City Downtown Commercial Historic District is a collection of historic architecture which dates generally from the 1890s through the 1940s reflecting many of the popular styles prevalent through the years.
[Venango County, PA]

Thursday 06/26/2008
The Delanson Historic District is a significant collection of late Victorian era domestic architecture in the historic core of the incorporated village of Delanson, the late nineteenth century commercial center of the town of Duanesburg [Village of Delanson, Schenectady County, NY]

Wednesday 06/25/2008
Completed in 1861, the Thayer-Thompson House is the epitome of the romantic new style of picturesque architecture, the virtues of which A. J. Downing extolled in his book The Architecture of Country Houses. O. C. Thayer built this brick house on "a country lot," then on the fringes of the Borough of Erie. [Erie Pennsylvania]

Tuesday 06/24/2008
The Borough of Edinboro, home to Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, is first and foremost a vibrant "College Town." More than 6,000 full-time students attend Edinboro, one of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth's fourteen state-owned universities. [Erie County, PA]

Monday 06/23/2008
West Park Place — Erie beat a path to the shops and stores in West Park Place to buy clothes, groceries, hardware, imported foodstuffs, silverware, paintings, books, real estate, insurance; and to seek the services of lawyers (the 1879 City Directory listed 15 attorneys on North Park Row), doctors, engineers, and dentists. People went there to bank, to buy tickets on the Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad, and possibly to school at Erie Commercial College; but above all, they went to be entertained.

The John Hill House is important architecturally since it represents the best remaining example of the Italian Villa style which was widely adopted in the homes of Erie's wealthy families during the late nineteenth century. [City of Erie, Erie County, PA]

Saturday 06/21/2008
The West Sixth Street Historic District, which functioned as Erie's "Millionaires Row" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is a well-preserved mansion district with relatively few intrusions. Containing a variety of elaborate residential buildings, some designed by leading architects of the region, it documents the tastes and lifestyles of America's nineteenth-century elite as well as the changing face of American architecture during the period.

The Charles Manning Reed Mansion (Erie Club) is probably the best known landmark in Erie, for its size, architecture, and association with the city's most prominent family during the nineteenth century. (ca. 1849) [City of Erie, Erie County, PA]

Friday 06/20/2008
The homes in the West 21st Street Historic District have architectural significance because they are a well preserved concentration of the type of homes erected by the middle and upper classes on the south side of Erie between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Wednesday 06/18/2008
The Emlenton Historic District is significant for its association with the broad industrial development patterns within the Oil Region of western Pennsylvania, particularly as the home of one of the nation's major petroleum refiners, Quaker State. [Emlenton Borough, Venango County, PA]

Tuesday 06/17/2008
Updated: Brookville Historic District — Merchants and professionals made a considerable contribution to the character and significance of the historic district, not only in the buildings which were constructed in the commercial area, but also in the residences which were built in the district during the town's first century. [Brookville Boro, Jefferson County]

Thursday 06/12/2008
The Union City Historic District is a locally outstanding concentration of more than 100 commercial and residential structures ca. 1865-1925. [Union City Borough, Erie County, PA]

Monday 06/09/2008
North East Historic District — the homes, commercial buildings and churches in the district constitute the largest and best preserved concentration of high style, mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century architecture in northeastern Erie County. The Borough of North East as a whole includes the largest number of mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century buildings in northeastern Erie County.

Sunday 06/08/2008
Originally, Watervliet included the entire western half of the Manor of Renesselaerwyck. Today, it is a small city arguably best-recognized as home to the Watervliet Arenal and the Jermain Memorial Presbyterian Church. [Albany County, NY]

Niskayuna was formed from Watervliet by an independent group of Hollanders ca. 1809. [Schenectady County, NY]

Saturday 06/07/2008
Main-Partition Streets Historic District — many buildings of special historical interest remain, including a 1780's public house, the Barrett-Johnstone Building, which housed a ballroom used for a courtroom and village elections, another inn, the Phoenix Hotel of 1827, and the Exchange Hotel, built before 1840. [Village of Saugerties, Ulster County, NY]

Friday 06/06/2008
Update
Village of Scotia — on the north bank of the Mohawk, opposite the City of Schenectady, is this little village, so named by one of the first settlers in the vicinity of Schenectady, who was called, by his Dutch neighbors, Sanders Leendertse Glen, but whose Scotch name was Alexander Lindsey Glen. [Schenectady County, NY]

Thursday 06/05/2008
Updates: Athens & Catskill NY
In 1800 Isaac Northrup, founder of the Village of Athens, began laying out the new town along the Hudson. The original plan was for ten streets running east to west and five streets north to south. The boundaries of the Lower Village Historic District basically follow the outline of the village in 1801.

The East Side Historic District is located in the Village of Catskill, seat of government for Greene County NY. The district includes a wide variety and high concentration of well-preserved late eighteenth and nineteenth-century brick and frame structures, ranging from simple industrial buildings and early stores to the elaborate Victorian residences which characterize the residential areas.

Wednesday 06/04/2008
The Okehocking Historic District is a collection of 18th and early 19th century farmhouses and their farm outbuildings in a rural setting including and surrounding an early 18th century Indian Land Grant. [Willistown Twp, Chester County, PA]

Tuesday 06/03/2008
The DuBois Historic District reflects many of the architectural styles popular during the 1888-1947. A number of the buildings in the district have been documented to be the work of prominent local builders such as Bert C. Skinner and Aaron Nelson Work, architect/master builders such as Amos Orner and George V. Cyphert, and locally- and regionally-important architect Russell G. Howard. [DuBois City, Clearfield County, PA]

Monday 06/02/2008
The 5-story Plumer Block (also known as the Hancock Building) 1866 at a time when Franklin was the booming county center for the infant Pennsylvania oil industry.

The Samuel F. Dale House is a good example of the Italianate style in local architecture. There is no other house of this size and quality in this part of the state. Its red brick and Victorian detail are skillfully combined. The house is in an excellent state of preservation, with little of its architectural integrity impaired.

Sunday 06/01/2008
Homes For Sale – today's new listings in Bucks County.

Saturday 05/31/2008
Princeton "... has worn the dignity of a borough since the year 1813, when the legislature granted it a charter for a municipal government. The reason why so small a town, as it then was, received such special privileges in its local government, can be found only in the peculiar exigencies which grew out of the existence of the college." [Mercer County, NJ]

Friday 05/30/2008
Sugartown was the most active of Willistown's four 19th century villages. It featured a large general store, an inn, and homes and shops for a blacksmith, wheelwright, cabinetmaker, saddler, and shoemaker. [Chester County, PA]

Dovecote is a ca. 2001 residential subdivision of about twenty 7,000 s.q ft. [median interior living space] residences on 2-plus acre lots.

Thursday 05/29/2008
The John V. A. Lansing Farmhouse is significant as an outstanding example of a traditional "L" plan Greek Revival style residence in the Town of Colonie. Built in c. 1830 the structure exhibits Greek Revival stylistic characteristics in its pedimented gable facade, formal side hall entrance, massive pilasters and heavy entablature. [Albany County, NY]

Tuesday 05/27/2008
The Union Street Historic District contains a significant concentration of nineteenth and early twentieth century buildings which reflect several historic periods in the development of the City of Schenectady.

Updated: The land which is now designated as the Stockade Historic District has been the site of continuous human habitation for over three hundred years. [Schenectady County, NY]

Wilderstein, a Hudson River estate with scenic mountain views, began in 1852 when Thomas Holy Suckley purchased the land which was originally a sheep meadow of the adjoining 18th-century Wildercliff estate.

Monday 05/26/2008
The Hudson Historic District is historically and architecturally significant as an intact concentration of historic buildings that embodies the unique characteristics of the formation and development of the City of Hudson from its establishment in 1783 to the conclusion of its rise to economic stature in the 1930's. Founded immediately following the Revolutionary War on a small Hudson River landing by New England investors seeking a safe location from which to conduct ocean trade, the city grew rapidly until, within ten years, it assumed a major position in the commerce of the state.

The Front Street-Parade Hill-Lower Warren Street Historic District included intact historic resources in the portion of the area first settled by the Proprietors when the city of Hudson was established.
[Columbia County, NY]

Sunday 05/25/2008
The Hamlet of Rhinecliff recalls its heyday during the late nineteenth century; it is approximately seven blocks long and three blocks wide, bisected by Charles and Kelly Streets, the community's primary north-south thoroughfares. The Rhinecliff Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [Town of Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, NY]

Cornelius H. Evans House – built in 1861, the brick and sandstone dwelling represents the achievements of the Evans family, the entrepreneurs behind one of the city's major 19th century industries. [Hudson NY]

Saturday 05/24/2008
The Washington Park Historic District in Troy, laid out in 1840, is an important example of the tradition of private residential squares established in London during the late eighteenth century and transplanted to America during the early decades of the 19th century.

The Casparus F. Pruyn House, a traditional, five-bay two-story, central entrance residence with Greek Revival style detailing, is significant for its historic association with Mr. Pruyn, the primary business agent for the Van Rensselaers.

Friday 05/23/2008
The Franklin Square Historic District of Saratoga Springs mirrors the history and economy of the nation's most popular summer resort during its heyday in the nineteenth century. [Saratoga County, NY]

Thursday 05/22/2008
The North Fifth Street Rowhouses are largely intact examples of mid-nineteenth century working class housing. The lots were purchased from the City of Hudson in September 1868, and the rowhouses were constructed between 1869 and 1871 by Freeman Coons, a builder, and a family of lumber merchants, Jacob Traver, William I. Traver and William H. Traver developed the row. Apparently all six buildings were developed as an investment for sale as rental housing. Most of the houses were always rental apartments, and not owner occupied. [Columbia County, NY]

Wednesday 05/21/2008
The Rossman-Prospect Avenue Historic District is a small enclave of late nineteenth and early twentieth century residences erected in a planned development on what is known as Prospect Hill.
[City of Hudson, Columbia County]

Tuesday 05/20/2008
The Reed Street Historic District (located along the west bank of the Hudson River in Greene County NY) is the focal point of the incorporated Village of Coxsackie, about 20 miles south of Albany.

Wednesday 05/14/2008
The Dryden Historic District represents the development of a rural crossroads community from its early beginnings, circa 1800, through its flowering in the mid- to late-nineteenth century and finally to the culmination of its growth in the mid-twentieth century. [Village of Dryden, Tompkins County, NY]

Tuesday 05/13/2008
Washington Park Historic District — As the park neared completion throughout the 1870's the residential streets fronting on it became increasingly fashionable. During the 1880's and 1890's fine brick and brownstone townhouses replaced smaller wooden structures. The most favored location was State Street where houses by nationally known architects, H. H. Richardson and Stanford White as well as prominent local architects became the homes of Albany's bank presidents, industrialists, railroad executives and politicians.

Monday 05/12/2008
The Menand Park Historic District was developed by attorney Charles S. Aldrich during the first decade of the 20th century. The homes are a merge of ideas from the Craftsman movement's notables such as the Greene Brothers, Irving Gill, and Gustav Stickley.

The Louis Menand House is historically significant as the only surviving structure associated with the locally prominent Menand family.
[Town of Colonie, Albany County, NY]

Sunday 05/11/2008
The Grand Street Historic District (downtown Troy) retains much of its late nineteenth century physical character. [Rensselaer County, NY]

The George E. Trimble House is significant as a distinguished example of Arts and Crafts style residential architecture. [Town of Colonie, Albany County, NY]

Updated: Centre County Pennsylvania

Saturday 05/10/2008
Ferry Road is a residential thoroughfare in Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County PA

Cold Spring Historic District – is a mix of early, middle and late nineteenth century structures throughout the district document the phases of the village's growth within the established pattern of streets.
[Village of Cold Spring, Putnam County]

Friday 05/09/2008
Boscobel – built ca. 1804-1807 by States Morris Dyckman, this National Register property is a refined example of the American Adamesque-style residence.
[Town of Philipstown, Putnam County]

The Garrison Grist Mill Historic District is significant as a rare surviving collection of eighteenth-century vernacular buildings associated with the agricultural development and tenant farm practices in the Hudson Highlands in the pre- and post-Revolutionary period.

Thursday 05/08/2008
Red Hill Estates is an Active Adult (55-plus) development of modular/manufactured, single family homes ca. 1988-2002. It's located in historic Red Hill Borough, Montgomery County. [see also our updated Active Adult Community Index]

Sunday 05/04/2008
Updated: browse more than 425 Townhome Subdivisions and Neighborhoods

New: Norwood House, a ca. 1973 townhome subdivision in Chester County's Downingtown Boro. Also, Ridley Farms, neighborhood of detached, single family homes built in the 1940s and 1950s in Delaware County's Ridley Twp.

Saturday 05/03/2008
At Living Places, we refer to Parsons Glen as an "ABC" neighborhood — A: Award-winning builder (Philomeno & Salamone); B: for Big (homes average more than 7,000 sq. ft. of living space); C: Convenient location (nearby golf, schools, shopping, nightlife, parks) ... a neighborhood for those who "want it all" and have the means to acquire a home in the 6-figure bracket. This ca. 2001 subdivision has only 18 homes, so they don't come up for sale very often. Tell your favorite real estate pro to keep an eye out for resales.

Winchester Park is a 1970s subdivision of approximately 15 detached, single family homes on 1-plus acre lots located in Buckingham Twp, Bucks County.

Friday 05/02/2008
National Register Historic Home For Sale
The Romberger-Stover House was listed on the National Register of Hisoric Places in 1980. [Berrysburg Boro, Dauphin County] This home is currently for sale. Download printer-friendly PDF containing some history and real estate contact information. This home is being marketed by Ryan Ansbach and Korrin Fees, Century 21 Krall Real Estate, Lebanon PA.

Thursday 05/01/2008
Active Adult – Bucktown Crossing is an Active Adult (55-plus) condominium development ca. 2008. The 4, 3-story buildings (24 units each) share a community center complete with outdoor swimming pool. [South Coventry Township, Chester County]

Wednesday 04/30/2008
Elmira Heights Village – In 1891, a group of businessmen formed the Elmira Industrial Association to stimulate employment and business in the face of the coming depression. Their object was to establish an industrial community north of Elmira and entice industries to locate there. By 1896 the successful venture resulted in the incorporation of the village. The Chateauesque-style Village Hall (ca. 1896) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Tuesday 04/29/2008
The Hanover Square Historic District comprises the main business center of the village of Horseheads (Chemung County) New York.

Monday 04/28/2008
The Downtown Fulton Historic District contains the largest concentration of historic commercial buildings in the city. [Fulton City, Callaway County, MO]

Updated –Barnsleigh (ca. 1989) and Woods of Neshaminy (ca. 1991); neighborhoods of detached, single family homes in Bensalem, Bucks County PA.

Sunday 04/27/2008
The houses of the Port Jefferson Village Historic District were built for a wide range of individuals involved in the shipbuilding and maritime economy and illustrate the nature of the economy, the range of professions involved in it and the social and economic dynamics of the community. [Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, NY]

Updated –Heather Glen neighborhood of detached, single family homes built ca. 1985. [Bensalem Twp, Bucks County]

Saturday 04/26/2008
Updated –Salem Farm neighborhood of detached, single family homes built primarily during the 1950s. [Bensalem Twp, Bucks County]

Friday 04/25/2008
The 1855 Extension Historic District has a rich variety of its architecture, representative of the Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Bungalow and Prairie styles, reflects the changing notions of popular taste and consistent attention to detail and quality craftsmanship that marked the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [Horseheads Village, Chemung County, NY]

The Elmira Civic Historic District is home to six county buildings, the city hall, an armory used by the city for office space, a large post office, a YMCA and a YWCA, two private social clubs, a library, an art museum, a church and a building intended for the Chemung County Historical Society. [Elmira City]

Thursday 04/24/2008
Watervliet Shaker Historic District — The first Shaker settlement in the U. S. was at Watervliet, and from here their influence spread to other parts of the country. Living apart from the main stream of American life, the Shakers, a Utopian religious sect, were highly regarded throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for their architecture, inventions and domestic arts. [Colonie Twp, Albany County, NY]

Updated – Bensalem Twp, Bucks County, PA
Florence Estates subdivision of detached, singles by Vanni Construction ca. 1993.
Salem Point ca. 1977 residential neighborhood of detached, singles.

Wednesday 04/23/2008
The Town of Colonie was a part of the enormous manor of Rensselaerwyck until 1840. The Yankee migration beginning in 1780 brought new population and new architectural tastes to the town. [Albany County, NY]

Updated –Barnsleigh East subdivision of detached, single-family homes by the Quaker Group ca. 1990. [Bensalem Twp, Bucks County]

Monday 04/21/2008
The Northwest York Historic District is that it exemplifies the City of York's architectural evolution of residential construction from the 1880's through 1930, the street railway era.

The York Historic District's most noteworthy architect was German born John Augustus (J. A.) Dempwolf. His late 19th and early 20th century buildings are considered by many to be the most beautiful in York. [York County, PA]

The area that is now Village of Wappingers Falls was first settled by New Englanders as early as 1660. [Dutchess County, NY]

Sunday 04/20/2008
The Railroad Resources of York County Pennsylvania is a National Register of Historic Places "multiple thematic resource nomination" that was listed in 1995. The expansion of the railroads in York County (as in so many places acrosss the U.S.) was responsible for an increase in the population and growth in the size of established communities or villages that came in contact with the various rail lines. Several communities were also founded along routes of the rail lines as a result of junctions or cross roads. In terms of the growth of established communities, the most notable example is York City.

Friday 04/18/2008
The Fairmount Historic District is significant as a suburb of York City laid out by Edward W. Spangler in 1884. It is one of the two earliest platted neighborhoods on the outskirts of York Borough, later York City. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [York County]

Tuesday 04/15/2008
First-Time Home Buyers — Bucks County
This morning we scanned a variety of real estate websites and found more than 30 municipalities in Bucks County having one or more homes with asking prices less than $200,000. Here are the towns and boros that appear to us to have the largest available inventories of homes in this price-range.**

Monday 04/14/2008
First-Time Home Buyers — Chester County
Scanning of a variety of real estate websites this morning shows more than 40 municipalities in Chester County having one or more homes with asking prices less than $200,000. Here are the towns and boros that appear to us to have the largest available inventories of homes in this price-range.**

Updated — Detached Singles on Large Lots
Here's our partial list of subdivisions across southeastern Pennsylvania having median lot sizes of 2 acres or more.

Sunday 04/13/2008
Cambridge Square is a development of 2-bedroom condos in a 4-story building on Sibley Avenue at "Suburban Square." [Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County]

Saturday 04/12/2008
Springton Pointe Estates is a subdivision of detached, single family built by Toll Brothers ca. 1999, located in Newtown Township, Delaware County.
[see more Toll Brothers Neighborhoods]

Friday 04/11/2008
Warrington Ridge is a subdivision of detached, single family homes by the David Cutler Group; located in Warrington Township Bucks County, these homes are approximately 3,100 sq. ft. on 1/3rd acre lots.
[See more David Cutler Neighborhoods]

Two Townhome Subdivisions in West Goshen Township, Chester County.
The Village of Shannon and Shadeland Woods

Thursday 04/10/2008
Active Adult Condominiums — New Construction
Traditions at Ridley Creek is a development of apartment-style (flats) condominiums by Pulte Homes in Brookhaven Borough, Delaware County.

Cold Springs Run is a subdivision of detached, single family homes by Monument Builders in West Goshen Township, Chester County.

Wednesday 04/09/2008
New Construction Townhomes
Deer Lake of Blue Bell is a subdivision of 33 townhomes by Philomeno & Salamone located near the intersection of North Wales and Morris Roads in Whitpain Township, Montgomery County.

Tuesday 04/08/2008
Active Adult (55-plus)
Golf View by McKee Builders in Springfield Township, Delaware County. [see also: Active Adult Index]

Monday 04/07/2008
Active Adult (55-plus) New Townhomes
Arbours at West Goshen by Westrum Development in West Goshen Township, Chester County.

Waynebrook Village — subdivision of semi-attached (twin) residences in historic Honey Brook Borough.

Sunday 04/06/2008
Hillcrestshire is a subdivision of detached, single family homes in Northampton Township (Bucks County) by Gigliotti ca. 1972. [See 30 more Gigliotti Neighborhoods]

Greenridge is a residential subdivision of detached, single family homes by Moser Builders ca. 2007-2008. [Upper Uwchlan Township, Chester County]

Saturday 04/05/2008
New Construction
The Reseve at Waynebrook is a subdivision of detached, single family homes by the David Cutler Group located in Upper Uwchlan Township, Chester County.
[See 70 more David Cutler Neighborhoods]

Friday 04/04/2008
Originally called "Wheat Street," the neighborhood comprising the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [City of Atlanta, Fulton County], Georgia]

City of Mason — when listed as a Multiple Resource Area on the National Register in 1985, Mason was descibed as "... a city of over 6000, is the county seat for Ingham County, an agricultural service center, home of several small industries, and a bedroom community for the Lansing metropolitan area. [Michigan]

Thursday 04/03/2008
Historic Malvern Borough, once a stop on the Pennsylvania Railroad Mainline, remains a "commutable" Chester County location at only 21 miles by rail (SEPTA) to Center City Philadelphia's Suburban Station. Here you'll find a variety of housing choices including rental apartments, twins, townhomes (Erin Glen, Landmark, Tidewater), condos (Kingsbury, Raintree, Village Knoll), and detached singles (Malvern Hills, Malvern Woods, Pennwyck).

Wednesday 04/02/2008
Living Large in Chester County
Winterwood – new, 5,000 sq. ft. homes in Pocopson Twp.

Wickersham Estates – ca. 2001 subdivision of singles (4,300-6,500 sq. ft.) in East Marlborough Twp.

Tuesday 04/01/2008
New Construction – Townhomes — Wyngate 3 bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths by Matrix Development [Cheltenham Twp, Montgomery County]

Summer Hill is a subdivision of detached, single family homes by Gambone Development ca. 2003. [Douglass Twp]

Sunday 03/30/2008
The City of Hudson, on the east bank of the Hudson River, and originally known as Claverack Landing, was settled in 1783; it is the head of natural navigation on the Hudson River. [Columbia County NY]

The Hamlet of Claverack had become a substantial settlement by the time of the American Revolution, having a large Georgian style church, several taverns, a grist mill complex, and a resident professional class composed almost exclusively of lawyers. [Town of Claverack]

Originally built in 1797, Lindenwald was named by Martin Van Buren when he returned there after his presidency. [Town of Kinderhook]

Saturday 03/29/2008
The Central Troy Historic District includes the core of the present city of Troy and encompasses residential neighborhoods as well as the city's commercial center. [Rensselaer County, NY]

Friday 03/28/2008
The Montgomery, Grand, Liberty Streets Historic District is primarily a nineteenth century residential neighborhood, but also contains nine churches and several public buildings. The influences of Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux gave direction to much of the building after 1840. [City of Newburgh, Orange County, NY.]

Thursday 03/27/2008
The buildings in the Church Park Historic District reflect the taste, prosperity and purposes of their original builders and owners. The character of Goshen's nineteenth-century streetscapes, with their mixture of public, commercial, residential and religious structures, still survives. [Orange County, NY]

Wednesday 03/26/2008
Norristown's Central Historic District encompasses the material diversity of a 19th and early 20th-century Pennsylvania industrial town — the original town's center, the county's present governmental complex, the borough's main business district, industrial sites, and both 19th and 20th-century residential neighborhoods.

The West End Historic District began its development on the eve of the Civil War; it was platted on a grid plan that moved progressively up the hill, westward from Stoney Creek. [Montgomery County PA]

Monday 03/24/2008
The Wrightsville Historic District has York County's only sizeable stock of mid-late 19th century workers' housing, as well as examples of most 19th century architectural styles. [Wrightsville Borough]

Sunday 03/23/2008
The Northumberland Historic District contains examples of houses from every era of the town's history. [Northumberland, PA]

Saturday 03/22/2008
TOWNHOMES — browse more than 400 town/row home subdivisions & neighborhoods

Throughout the Pleasureville Historic District mid-19th to early 20th century dwellings dominate the streetscape. [Springettsbury Township, York County]

Friday 03/21/2008
Chapmans Corner — new construction; subdivision by Toll Bros in Wrightstown Twp, Bucks County.

Susquehanna River Rafting – rafting was at one time a great business on all the large streams of Pennsylvania.

Thursday 03/20/2008
The East York Historic District began its existence in 1903 as a comprehensively-planned, residential subdivision. It was conceived and created by John H. Longstreet, principal of a venture called the "Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Company" which had offices in York and Philadelphia. [Springettsbury Township, York County]

Wednesday 03/19/2008
The Gansevoort/East Steuben Streets Historic District contains a significant concentration of substantially intact houses, dating from c. 1830 to 1908, reflecting the development of one of Bath's more fashionable middle-class residential areas. Many of the dwellings in the neighborhood are historically associated with locally prominent merchants and businessmen.

The Liberty Street Historic District is an architecturally and historically significant concentration of commercial, residential, ecclesiastical and civic structures in the historic core of the village. [Bath Village, Steuben County, NY]

Tuesday 03/18/2008
Swarthmorewood is a residential neighborhood of semi-attached, twin residences built primarily during the 1950s and 1960s. [Ridley Township, Delaware County]

Monday 03/17/2008
The geographic location of Burlington, Vermont on Lake Champlain historically positioned it as a natural point of transport between interior regions and water shipping routes. [Chittenden County]

Sunday 03/16/2008
The Milton Historic District is composed of the downtown and older residential neighborhoods of this 19th and 20th Century industrial center. The building stock maintains a high degree of integrity and reflects the drive and wealth of the citizens who rebuilt Milton after the disastrous fire in 1880 that destroyed most of the downtown. [Borough of Milton, Northumberland County.

Saturday 03/15/2008
Broad Margin, is one of only two Frank Lloyd Wright designs to be found in South Carolina. This Usonian-style home was completed in 1954. [Greenville]

Mills Mill, ca. 1895 (listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982), is benefactor of an adaptive reuse project which has given the former knitting factory a new life as residential condominiums. The condos are known contemporaneously as "The Lofts at Mills Mill."

Friday 03/14/2008
The Pettigru Street Historic District is located to the east of the downtown Greenville and contains commercial and residential properties that were built between 1910 and 1930.

Thursday 03/13/2008
The National Register Historic Districts of East Park and Hampton-Pinckney are two of the oldest residential neighborhoods in the City of Greenville. [Greenville County, South Carolina]

Greenville – Best "Walking City" in South Carolina according to Prevention Magazine's 2008 annual ranking. Nationally, Greenville ranked number 36 out of 500.

Wednesday 03/12/2008
The Estates at Deep Run Creek is a subdivision by Macintosh Builders — large homes (3,000-plus sq. ft.) on large lots (1-acre plus) in Bedminster Twp, Bucks County.

The Patton Historic District is significant for its late nineteenth and early twentieth century style architecture. There are examples of Colonial Revival, Foursquare and Queen Anne styles. It also includes vernacular housing, some of it built for workers employed by the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Company, Cambria County's largest coal company in the early twentieth century. [Patton Borough]

Tuesday 03/11/2008
Westmont Historic District — The Cambria Iron Company built 28 homes for its workers. The smaller blue collar type was built north of Greene Street, while larger homes were constructed south of Greene. [Westmont Boro, Cambria County]

Portage Historic District — as a transfer point for coal shipments and a market town and operations base for area mining concerns, Portage played a significant role in the local transportation and commercial history of southwestern Pennsylvania.

Monday 03/10/2008
The once tiny hamlet of Ithaca was incorporated as a village in 1821 and by the 1830's had become a bustling, growing mill town and transportation center for Tompkins County. [NY]

Sunday 03/09/2008
New Listing in Hidden Pond — residential development of large homes (4,000-6,000 sqft) on large lots (2 acre) in West Vincent Township, Chester County.

Saturday 03/08/2008
New Active Adult Community in Strasburg — Heritage Strasburg is a new 55-plus subdivision of detached, single family residences by Charter Homes. [see also: Active Adult Index]

The Manheim Borough Historic District is significant in the areas of industry, commerce and architecture, reflect the development of the Boro as a commercial and industrial center for the surrounding rural community, from its beginning in 1762 through the first half of the twentieth century.

The Strasburg Historic District is part of this preserved linear village which illustrates early development along the first major transportation routes in Lancaster County. Strasburg's architecture and layout are reflective of the road and its prosperity; it has undergone little alteration and retains many of its 18th and 19th century structures. [Strasburg Boro]

Friday 03/07/2008
It was with the 1933-34 Century of Progress Exposition that the term "prefabrication" came into general use. Eight of the original eleven houses were designed using prefabricated building units in an attempt to bring the out-of-date housing industry into line with more efficient manufacturing practices such as those used by the auto industry. [Town of Beverly Shores Porter County IN]

The Lackawanna Avenue Historic District reflects the prominence that was a part of Scranton in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [Lackawanna County]

Thursday 03/06/2008
The Fountain Hill Historic District is historically important in the areas of industry and transportation for its association with the managers of Lehigh Valley Railroad and Bethlehem Steel Corporation. [City of Bethlehem, Northampton County]

The Mount Union Historic District was significant for its role as a local commercial center and for its representative collection of architecture common to central Pennsylvania communities from the 1840s to 1940s. [Mount Union Boro, Huntingdon County]

Wednesday 03/05/2008
Ivyland Village is a subdivision of townhomes and detached singles by Judd Builders ca. 2003. [Ivyland Boro, Bucks County]

The Delta Historic District reflects the community's proximity to, and its association with, York County's slate industry, which thrived during the second half of the 19th century. [Delta Boro]

Tuesday 03/04/2008
Fairway Court is a new subdivision of 7 detached, single family homes by Erb-Mascio Builders. [Lower Salford Twp, Montgomery County]

The Shrewsbury Historic District has the finest mid-19th century streetscape extant in York County. [Shrewsbury Boro]

Monday 03/03/2008
Uwchlan Woods and Uwclan Hunt are two 1990s residential neighborhoods of detached, single family homes by Toll Brothers.

The Millionaire's Row Historic District represents the pinnacle of Williamsport's social, economic and cultural history. The district was constructed during the most prolific economic period in the City's history and capsulizes the City's built environment. The size, scope, and elaborate workmanship apparent in the structures of the district are excellent reminders of the 1850-1920 era of prosperity. [Lycoming County]

Sunday 03/02/2008
ACTIVE ADULT (55-PLUS) COMMUNITY
Park View at Valley Forge is an active adult townhome subdivision by Gambone Development. [Lower Providence Twp, Montgomery County]

Subdivision of Singles, Twins and Townhomes
Westport Farm is a residential subdivision by T.H. Properties in Franconia Twp.

The Brownsville Northside Historic District is an intact neighborhood of predominantly early 19th- to early 20th-century houses, together with an important collection of commercial buildings and churches and other church-related structures. [Brownsville Borough, Fayette County]

Saturday 03/01/2008
Updated Index: Active Adult (55-plus) Communities

New 2-Story Riverside Condos – the Grande at Riverview – condominiums by D. R. Horton; a development of mid-rise condominiums along the Schuylkill River in Conshohocken, Montgomery County.

The Saltsburg Historic District an important example of small town development stimulated by the Pennsylvania Canal and Railroad. [Saltsburg Boro, Indiana County]

Friday 02/29/2008
The Dawson Historic Districtplayed an important role as a residential community for management, workers, and the prominent Cochran family during the bituminous era. [Dawson Borough, Fayette County]

Thursday 02/28/2008
New Construction – the Reserve at Warrington is a subdivision of 44 detached, single family homes by highly-regarded regional builder, David Cutler Group. [Warrington Twp, Bucks County]

The Saxonburg Historic District retains much of the historic street plan which founder John Roebling laid out in 1831 when he emigrated here from Germany to establish his new community. He platted a grid of streets and spacious building lots, long and narrow in dimension, allowing for homes and shops to be erected at the front of the lots-most of which faced Main Street. The rear of the lots was intended for agricultural use. The original lots have been subdivided to create tracts of a "village" character rather than an agrarian dimension. [Saxonburg Boro, Butler County | MAP]

Wednesday 02/27/2008
Jersey Shore Historic District — by 1850, nearly all the important merchants and businessmen were well established; they were responsible for many fine examples of Greek Revival style buildings in the district. [Jersey Shore Boro, Lycoming County]

Muncy Historic District — Muncy's proximity to the major bend of the West Branch Susquehanna River Valley determined its position as a natural destination and supply stop for any further westward settlement in Lycoming County. [Muncy Boro]

Tuesday 02/26/2008
The Columbia Historic District illustrates two centuries of the town's growth and development as a key transportation and industrial center in south central Pennsylvania, starting with the establishment of Wrights' Ferry in 1730. [Columbia Boro, Lancaster County]

The Goldsboro Historic District is a well preserved example of a planned rail community of the mid nineteenth century which developed into a locally important service and manufacturing center. [Goldsboro Borough, York County]

Monday 02/25/2008
The architectural resources in the largely residential Hanover Historic District are varied and abundant. The vast majority of the 3,036 buildings are fifty years or older, are either brick or frame, retain good to excellent architectural integrity, are in fair to excellent condition and enhance the overall historic character of the District. [Hanover Boro, York County]

Railroad Borough Historic District is a well-preserved example of a rail depot community of the 1840-1920 period. [Railroad Boro]

Saturday 02/23/2008
The Lewisburg Historic District contains hundreds of buildings having commecial, economic, educational, political and architectural significance. [Lewisburg Boro, Union County]

The Honesdale Residential Historic District is a significant concentration of architecture built during the period of 1830 to 1947. [Honesdale Borough, Wayne County]

Sunbury Historic District — Located at the confluence of the north and west branches of the Susquehanna River, Sunbury was an important political, commercial, industrial and transportation center during the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. [Sunbury City, Northumberland County]

Friday 02/22/2008
The vast majority of buildings in the Waynesburg Historic District have not been altered, thereby giving one a true sense of a small rural town during the 1890's to 1910. [Waynesburg Boro, Greene County]

Thursday 02/21/2008
The Danville Historic District contains the historic commercial, governmental and residential core of the community, reflecting its historic significance as an industrial and trading center in the middle Susquehanna Valley and as county seat of Montour County. [Danville Boro]

In 1752 Thomas Penn, the principal proprietor of Pennsylvania. ordered the survey of an area which is, today, the Easton Historic District. He wished to found the shiretown for the new Northampton County at the Forks of the Delaware. The town was to be called Easton after the ancestral home of his bride, Lady Juliana Fermor.

Wednesday 02/20/2008
The Bloomsburg Historic District is characterized by a diversity of styles, scale building material and design elements. [Town of Bloomsburg, Columbia County]

The McConnellsburg Historic District reflects many facets of its past as a stopping place on a major 18th and 19th century highway, as a county seat and as an example of the evolution of architecture in Fulton County. [McConnelsburg Boro]

Tuesday 02/19/2008
The Old Mauch Chunk Historic District contains an incredible blend of public and private buildings of exceptional architectural merit, scattered among a background of typical 19th Century commercial and residential structures; all located in spectacular natural setting. [Jim Thorpe Boro, Carbon County]

The Water Street Historic District contains fine examples of 19th century architectural styles, specifically those of the Victorian era. [Lock Haven City, Clinton County]

Monday 02/18/2008
The Wellsboro Historic District's significance is strengthened by examples of the work of regionally and nationally prominent practitioners, including Andrew Jackson Downing, to whom is attributed the Downingesque Gothic Revival style board-and-batten house at 58 Central Avenue.

Sunday 02/17/2008
The Ridgway Historic District retains its historic architectural integrity and contains examples of many of the styles of design which were popular during its century-long period of significance (1850-1952). [Elk County, Ridgway Boro]

Saturday 02/16/2008
The Economy Historic District, encompassing the remaining buildings of the Harmony Society's third, most prosperous, and final home, is significant as a relatively complete physical document of the Society and its way of life. [Ambridge Boro, Beaver County]

Although the Warren Historic District is larger than other listed districts in the region, the range of architectural styles present and its role as a financial, commercial and residential center for the county is readily comparable to other county seat communities in northwestern Pennsylvania. [City of Warren, Warren County]

Perkiomen Woods (townhome subdivision located just outside of Collegeville Boro; built over 2 decades, 1977-1996) [Upper Providence Twp, Montgomery County]

Warren R. Weaver House, ca. 1904 Queen Anne, residence with octagonal tent roof and 2-story oriel. [Altoona]

Friday 02/15/2008
The Broad Avenue Historic District represents the earliest streetcar-oriented development in the City of Altoona. The area encompasses a range of architectural styles and types prevalent from the decade of the 1880s through the turn of the century. [Blair County, Pennsylvania]

Wednesday 02/13/2008
Raymond Houses — At the height of the Victorian period two brothers built mansions facing each other in the small community of Middletown. The Joseph Raymond House (37 North Union St.) was completed in 1883 and the Charles Raymond House (38 North Union St.) in 1891. Both houses are similar in plan and decoration, however the Charles Raymond House was constructed on a much grander scale, with more expensive and varied features. [Middletown Boro, Dauphin County PA]

Tuesday 02/12/2008
At Mill Grove – a National Historic Landmark – John James Audubon made his earliest observations of the "birds of America", conducted his experiments in bird-banding (the first in the United States,) devised his methods of taxidermy, and painted artistic renderings of his wildlife subjects.

Morehall Glen (single-family subdivision by Rouse-Chamberlin Homes ca. 1999); Pickering Glen (single-family subdivision by Pulte Homes ca. 2002); Sunwood Farm (single-family subdivision by various builders, ca. 1991), [Schuylkill Twp, Chester County]

Monday 02/11/2008
Wedgewood (ca. 1969 neighborhood of detached, single family homes), [Lower Providence Twp, Montgomery County].

Whitehorse (single-family subdivision by Rouse-Chamberlin ca. 1997), Whitehorse Meadows (single-family subdivision by Maplewood, Inc. ca. 2001), [Charlestown Twp, Chester County]

Sunday 02/10/2008
Brook Crossing (single-family subdivision by Dilsheimer Communities ca. 2004), Doe Run Farms (single-family subdivision ca. 1979), [East Fallowfield Twp, Chester County]

Ashleigh Greene (single-family subdivision ca. 1998), Meadowcroft Knoll (single-family subdivision by Megill Development ca. 2002), Wheatland Farms (single-family subdivision by Cedar Knoll Builders ca. 2007-2008), [New London Twp, Chester County]

Friday 02/08/2008
Index of Over 55 (Active Adult) Communities

Wyntree Estates (single-family subdivision ca. 2004 by Gambone)

National Register of Historic Places: Anthony Morris House, ca. 1717, listed 1980; Peter Wentz Homestead, ca. 1758, listed 1973. [Worcester Twp, Montgomery County]

Thursday 02/07/2008
Berwick Place (townhome subdivision ca. 1995 by Dilsheimer), Center Point Farms (single family subdivision ca. 1999 by Gambone), Hillcrest_Meadows (single family subdivision ca. 1995 by Sparango) and Milestone (single family subdivision ca. 1993 by Quaker Group) — located in Worcester Twp, Montgomery County, PA.

Wednesday 02/06/2008
The Tulpehocken Creek Historic District is significant as the original settlement area of Western Berks County. Not only was it the destination of the German community that transplanted itself from Schoharie, New York to Pennsylvania in the 1720's, but it was the pathway they followed, the last leg of their water route via the Susquehanna and Swatara and Tulpehocken to their ultimate home. [Marion Twp, Berks County]

Tuesday 02/05/2008
Added four subdivisions of detached, single family homes in Douglass Twp, Montgomery County — Laurelwood, Presidential Estates, Twin Ponds, and Winding Creek

The Warwick Village Historic District is composed of distinct areas which correspond to periods of the village's development, including the colonial era crossroads around which the community was formed, the commercial street which received impetus when Warwick became a railroad center in a large food-producing region, and the broad avenues lined with large turn-of-the-century residences as New York City's sphere of influence expanded into the countryside. [Village of Warwick, Orange County, NY]

Monday 02/04/2008
Chadwick Place (townhomes), Bethel Grant (townhomes), and Heritage Village (semi-attached/twins) located in Worcester Twp, Montgomery County, PA.

Sunday 02/03/2008 — Commutable Condominiums
Beaver Hill is a mid-rise complex of one, two, and three bedroom condominiums located across from the Jenkintown Boro SEPTA rail station. [Montgomery County]

Saturday 02/02/2008
The Dale Furnace and Forge Historic District is an important iron plantation notable for its architectural significance. [Washington Twp, Berks County, PA]

Wednesday 01/30/2008
The Stouchsburg Historic District represents the core of the village which saw its expansion halted when the Union Canal was abandoned in 1844. [Marion Twp]

The buildings of the Berkley Historic District illustrate the materials, design, and workmanship typical of central Berks County villages during the colonial and early Republic eras. [Ontelaunee Twp]

Monday 01/28/2008
NEW: Oley Township Historic District — the farms and villages of this well-defined area, set apart geologically, topographically, and in cultural heritage, make up a historic district of remarkable integrity. [Oley Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania]

Sunday 01/27/2008
The Virginville Historic District buildings illustrate the appearance of a typical rural Berks County village between 1874 and c.1930.[Richmond Twp, Berks County]

Saturday 01/26/2008
NEW: Hunt Manor [Atglen Boro, Chester County]

Wednesday 01/23/2008
NEW: River Mawr, residential neighborhood in Historic Yardley Boro, Bucks County PA.

The Roosevelt Neighborhood multiple resource area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [