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Bear Creek Village Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
99001287

Year built
  
1881

Area
  
90 ha

Added to NRHP
  
28 October 1999

Bear Creek Village Historic District

Location
  
PA 115 at Bear Creek Dam, Bear Creek Village, Pennsylvania

Architect
  
Raife, Phillip R.; et al.

Architectural style
  
Stick/eastlake, Colonial Revival

Bear Creek Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Bear Creek Village, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 55 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures in the borough of Bear Creek Village. It includes houses and workers' cottages, summer cottages, outbuildings, churches, cemeteries, a dam and lake, and the remains of 19th and early 20th century lumbering and ice industries. Notable contributing resources include the Bear Creek Dam, Albert Lewis Residence (1895, 1922-1923), The Pines (c. 1875), Grace Chapel (1884), the Lewis Family Cemetery, former St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church (1911), store and post office (c. 1885), Bear Creek Association clubhouse (c. 1920), and former Lehigh Valley Railroad Station (c. 1895).

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

References

Bear Creek Village Historic District Wikipedia