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Colver Historic District

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Built
  
1911-1943

NRHP Reference #
  
94000521

Added to NRHP
  
3 June 1994

Architectural style
  
Other, Company Housing

Area
  
110 ha

Colver Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Ninth Ave., the Ebensburg Coal Company Power Building and Bakerville, Colver, Barr Township and Cambria Township, Pennsylvania

MPS
  
Bituminous Coal and Coke Resources of Pennsylvania MPS

Colver Historic District is a national historic district located at Barr Township and Cambria Township in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 336 contributing buildings, 5 contributing sites, and 3 contributing structures. The district consists of residential areas, coal mining resources, Cambria and Indiana Railroad shop buildings, and a dairy farm associated with the Ebensburg Coal Company's mine and developed between 1911 and 1943. Notable buildings include a variety of brick and frame workers' housing, the Ebensburg Coal Company office building (1914), stone company store (1912), Colver Amusement Company (1912), Colver Hotel (1912), Colver Presbyterian Church (1915), public school (1927), hospital (1914), Roundhouse No. 1 (1918), Roundhouse No. 2 (1920), and main power building (1911).

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

References

Colver Historic District Wikipedia