NRHP Reference # 97001249 Year built 1863 | Area 90 ha Added to NRHP 10 November 1997 | |
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Location Roughly bounded by Allegheny R., Wilson Ave., Lee's Ln., W. Third, and W. Fifth Sts., and Reservoir St., Oil City, Pennsylvania Architectural style Colonial, Romanesque, Italianate MPS Oil Industry Resources in Western Pennsylvania MPS | ||
Oil City South Side Historic District, also known as Venango City and Laytonia, is a national historic district located at Oil City, Venango County, Pennsylvania. It is directly south of the Oil City Downtown Commercial Historic District. The district includes 882 contributing buildings and 2 contributing objects in a mixed use section of Oil City. It includes a large number of dwellings, commercial buildings, churches, and institutional buildings. The houses were built between about 1863 and 1945 and are in a variety of popular architectural styles including Romanesque Revival, Late Gothic Revival, Second Empire, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Bungalow, American Foursquare, and Italianate. Notable non-residential buildings include the Carnegie Library (1905), Latonai Theater (1928), Knights of Columbus Hall (1927-1928), Good Hope Lutheran Church Rectory (1928), Christ Episcopal Church (1886), St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church (1906), and Second Lutheran Church (1913). Located in the district is the separately listed Oil City Armory.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.