NRHP Reference # 97001244 Local time Saturday 11:11 PM Added to NRHP 24 October 1997 | Area 40 ha Year built 1892 | |
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Location Roughly the jct. of PA 51 and PA 4036, including Post Office Rd., Church St., PA 532, and Old Ridge Rd., Perry Township, Pennsylvania Built by Washington Coal and Coke Architectural style Other, company built miner's duplex MPS Bituminous Coal and Coke Resources of Pennsylvania MPS Weather 18°C, Wind E at 10 km/h, 61% Humidity | ||
Star Junction Historic District is a national historic district located at Perry Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 163 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures in the bituminous coal mining community of Star Junction. Most of the contributing buildings were built between 1892 and 1918, and 130 of the contributing buildings are two-story, frame duplex workers housing. The oldest building is the Whitsett farmhouse, built about 1845. Other buildings and structures include 22 mine manager's dwellings ("Tony Row"), two former mine buildings, two churches, a parsonage, two commercial buildings, a concrete highway bridge (1921), and earthen dam reservoir (c. 1892).
Map of Star Junction, PA 15482, USA
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.