Star Junction Historic District

	Star Junction Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Old company store in Star Junction, May 1989
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
Coordinates	40°03′42″N 79°45′43″W / 40.06167°N 79.76194°W
Area	100 acres (40 ha)
Built	1892
Built by	Washington Coal and Coke
Architectural style	Other, company built miner's duplex
MPS	Bituminous Coal and Coke Resources of Pennsylvania MPS
NRHP reference No.	97001244
Added to NRHP	October 24, 1997

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).^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.^[1]

Gallery

A string of Star Junction company homes, October 2009
Star Junction coal-patch style housing, October 2009

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Clinton E. Piper (July 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Star Junction Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-29.

External links

Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, PA: 7 photos, 34 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, PA: 1 photo and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[arch-2] "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Clinton E. Piper (July 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Star Junction Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-29.

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