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Oil City North Side Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
99001335

Year built
  
1870

Area
  
101 ha

Added to NRHP
  
12 November 1999

Oil City North Side Historic District httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Conrail RR, Manning St., Park Rd., Deer St., and Linden, Hasson, Bishop, Carroll and E. Bissell Ave., Oil City, Pennsylvania

Architectural style
  
Late Victorian, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals

MPS
  
Oil Industry Resources in Western Pennsylvania MPS

Oil City North Side Historic District, also known as Cottage Hill, Palace Hill, and Polish Hill, is a national historic district located at Oil City, Venango County, Pennsylvania. It is directly north of the Oil City Downtown Commercial Historic District. The district includes 1,140 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Oil City. It includes a few neighborhood commercial buildings, churches, and two schools. The houses were built between about 1870 and 1945 and are in a variety of popular architectural styles including Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne, Second Empire, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, and Italianate. It also includes a number of working class vernacular dwellings, especially in the Polish Hill section.

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

References

Oil City North Side Historic District Wikipedia