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Glen Rock Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
97000518

Year built
  
1838

Area
  
44 ha

Added to NRHP
  
30 May 1997

Glen Rock Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Glenvue Rd., Hanover, Manchester, Valley, Church and Center Sts., Shrewsbury Township, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania

Architect
  
Dise, Joseph; Shewell, Jesse

Architectural style
  
Queen Anne, Bungalow/craftsman

Glen Rock Historic District is a national historic district located at Glen Rock in York County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 287 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 4 contributing structures in the central business district and surrounding residential area of Glen Rock. The houses are mostly 2 1/2-story, vernacular wood frame buildings, built between 1838 and 1945, with some notable Queen Anne and Bungalow/craftsman style dwellings. Notable buildings include the Philip Shaffer House (c. 1840), the "Castle" (1889), Peoples Bank of Glen Rock (1912), Glen Theatre (1913), Glen Rock Hose and Ladder Company (1904), Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (1905), Immanuel United Methodist Church (1926), Industrial Sewing Company (1916), Glen Traditionals building (1921), and Accufab building (c. 1938). A contributing structure is the Northern Central Railway bridge (c. 1871).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

References

Glen Rock Historic District Wikipedia


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