Oil City South Side Historic District


Oil City South Side Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

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Location	Roughly bounded by Allegheny R., Wilson Ave., Lee's Ln., W. Third, and W. Fifth Sts., and Reservoir St., Oil City, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	41°25′18″N 79°43′12″W / 41.42167°N 79.72000°W / 41.42167; -79.72000Coordinates: 41°25′18″N 79°43′12″W / 41.42167°N 79.72000°W / 41.42167; -79.72000
Area	222 acres (90 ha)
Built	1863
Architectural style	Colonial, Romanesque, Italianate
MPS	Oil Industry Resources in Western Pennsylvania MPS
NRHP Reference #	97001249^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 10, 1997

Oil City South Side Historic District, also known as Venango City and Laytonia, is a national historic district located at Oil City, Venango County, Pennsylvania. It is directly south of the Oil City Downtown Commercial Historic District. The district includes 882 contributing buildings and 2 contributing objects in a mixed use section of Oil City. It includes a large number of dwellings, commercial buildings, churches, and institutional buildings. The houses were built between about 1863 and 1945 and are in a variety of popular architectural styles including Romanesque Revival, Late Gothic Revival, Second Empire, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Bungalow, American Foursquare, and Italianate. Notable non-residential buildings include the Carnegie Library (1905), Latonai Theater (1928), Knights of Columbus Hall (1927-1928), Good Hope Lutheran Church Rectory (1928), Christ Episcopal Church (1886), St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church (1906), and Second Lutheran Church (1913). Located in the district is the separately listed Oil City Armory.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (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 David L. Taylor (July 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Oil City South Side Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-06-02.

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