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Cairnbrook Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
94000523

Year built
  
1912

Area
  
20 ha

Added to NRHP
  
3 June 1994

Cairnbrook Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by the Penn Central RR tracks, McGregor Ave., Windber Ave. and John St., Cairnbrook, Shade Township, Pennsylvania

Architectural style
  
Prairie School, Other, Company Housing

MPS
  
Bituminous Coal and Coke Resources of Pennsylvania MPS

Cairnbrook Historic District is a national historic district located at Shade Township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 132 contributing buildings and 8 contributing structures. It encompasses an area developed by the Loyal Hanna Coal and Coke Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between 1912 and 1920. It includes the remaining extant mine resources and the archaeological remains of the mine. They consist of workers' housing, a variety of commercial and social buildings, and a modern draft entry mine with accompanying extractive buildings and structures. Notable buildings include the motor barn, supply house, electric substation, and Loyal Hanna Coal and Coke Company Office (1914). The mine operated until 1958.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

References

Cairnbrook Historic District Wikipedia