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Oil City Downtown Commercial Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
97001250

Year built
  
1870

Area
  
10 ha

Added to NRHP
  
24 October 1997

Oil City Downtown Commercial Historic District

Location
  
Generally along Seneca, Center, Elm, Sycamore, Duncomb, and Main Sts., Oil City, Pennsylvania

Architect
  
Bailey, Emmett E.; Bresnot, Joseph P.

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival, Romanesque, Italianate

MPS
  
Oil Industry Resources in Western Pennsylvania MPS

Oil City Downtown Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Oil City, Venango County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 51 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures in the central business district of Oil City. It primarily includes commercial buildings in a variety of popular architectural styles including Romanesque Revival, Colonial Revival, and Italianate. Notable buildings include the General Telephone Company Building (1942), Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church (1924), Oil City Boiler Works, Downs Block (1894), Veach Block (1896, 1913), Drake Building (1928), and Oil City National Bank (1926).

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

References

Oil City Downtown Commercial Historic District Wikipedia