Whitsett Historic District (Whitsett, Pennsylvania)


Whitsett Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Whitsett Historic District, October 2009
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Location	Roughly bounded by the Youghiogheny River, the former Elwell Branch of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad tracks, and Elwell Run, at Whitsett, Perry Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°06′22″N 79°46′21″W / 40.10611°N 79.77250°W / 40.10611; -79.77250Coordinates: 40°06′22″N 79°46′21″W / 40.10611°N 79.77250°W / 40.10611; -79.77250
Area	79 acres (32 ha)
Built	1903
MPS	Bituminous Coal and Coke Resources of Pennsylvania MPS
NRHP Reference #	95000883^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 21, 1995

Whitsett Historic District is a national historic district located at Perry Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 48 contributing buildings and 5 contributing structures in the bituminous coal mining community of Whitsett. Most of the contributing buildings were built between 1890 and 1917, and 31 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 three mine manager's dwellings, two brick former mine buildings, the former company store annex, the former water pumphouse, the remains of the Banning Mine No. 2 entrance, foundation of the Banning Mine No. 2 tipple complex, the mine slate dump, beehive coke oven battery, and the abandoned Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Connellsville Branch.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes John R. Axtell (April 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Whitsett Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-29.

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