Saltsburg Historic District | |
 Saltsburg, July 2006 | |
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| Location | Roughly, W of Plum and Walnut Alleys to Kiskiminetas R., Saltsburg, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 40°29′2″N 79°27′4″W / 40.48389°N 79.45111°W |
| Area | 48 acres (19 ha) |
| Built | 1829 |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian, Federal, Canal Vernacular |
| NRHP reference No. | 92000386[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 7, 1992 |
The Saltsburg Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Saltsburg in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]
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Today, Salzburg's pride in Mozart shows itself best not in museums but in live concerts. Salzburg is a world class destination for live musical performances. Each summer it hosts its famous Salzburg Festival. But Salzburg's busy all year long with over two thousand live performances in churches and palaces like this. We're heading into the Mirabell Palace to hear a string quartet play play in a splendid baroque hall. Mozart performed for the prince-archbishop right here. And this evening the Twins Quartet from Moscow play Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. The surrounding Mirabell Gardens, laid out in 1730, are a favorite with locals and tourists alike. Enjoying the garden/cathedral/castle view, it's easy to imagine how the prince-archbishop must've reveled in such a vista that reminded him of all his secular as well as religious power. We're heading two hours southeast of Salzburg to my favorite Salzkammergut town on my favorite Salzkammergut lake. The tiny train station is across Lake Hallstatt from the postcard-pretty town by the same name: Hallstatt. Stefanie (a boat) meets each arriving train and glides scenically across the lake into town. Lovable Hallstatt is a tiny town bullied onto a ledge between a mountain and a swan-ruled lake. Apart from the waterfall which rips through its middle Hallstatt is an oasis of peace. With the scarcity of level land, tall homes had their front door on the street level top floor and their water entrance several floors below. The town, which originated as a salt mining center, is one of Europe's oldest, going back centuries before Christ. There was a Hallstatt before there was a Rome. In fact, because of the salt mining importance here, an entire age — the Hallstatt era, from about 800 BC to 400 BC — is named for this once important spot. If you dug under these buildings, you'd find Roman and pre-Roman Celtic pavement stones from the ancient and prehistoric salt depot. This cute little village was once the salt-mining namesake of a culture that spread from France to the Black Sea. Back then, salt was so precious because it preserved meat, and Hallstatt was, as its name means, the "place of salt." A steep funicular runs up the mountain to Hallstatt's salt mine. It's one of many throughout the region that offer tours. At the mine, visitors slip into overalls, meet their guide and hike into the mountain. While this particular tunnel dates only from 1719, Hallstatt's mine claims to be the oldest in the world. In the tour you'll learn the story of salt. Archaeologists claim that since 7,000 BC, people have come here to get salt. A briny spring sprung here, attracting Bronze Age people. Later, miners dug tunnels to extract the salty rock. They dissolved it into a brine, which flowed through miles of pipes, the oldest hewn out of logs, to Hallstatt and nearby towns, where the brine was, and still is, cooked until only the salt remained. A highlight is riding miner-style from one floor down to the next, praying for no splinters. Through the centuries, Hallstatt was busy with the salt trade. Since it had no road access, people came and went by boat. You'll still see the traditional Fuhr boats, designed to carry heavy loads in shallow water. Herr Alfred Lenz makes the town's traditional boats from a two hundred year old design. The oar lock is still made of the gut of a bull. Alfred claims an hour on the lake is worth a day of vacation.
History and architectural features
This district encompasses 118 contributing buildings, one contributing site, one contributing structure, and fifteen contributing objects that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Saltsburg, including notable examples of buildings that were designed in the Federal and Late Victorian styles. Most of the buildings were built between the 1830s and 1880s.
Notable buildings include the William McIlwaine House and Store (1820–1829), the Dr. James Crawford House (1830–1839), Dr. McFarland's Drug Store and Office (1840), the Saltsburg Hotel (1870s), the Western Pennsylvania Railroad Station (1864), the Saltsburg Presbyterian Church (1874), the Sons of Zebedee Evangelical Lutheran Church (1878), the Altman Feed Mill (1893), the First National Bank Building (1927), and the DeLisi Theater (1923).
The contributing site is a former canal/railbed of the Western Pennsylvania Railroad and Lock #8 that is now occupied by Canal Park. The contributing structures are the retaining walls of the railroad. The contributing objects are canal markers.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]
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Saltsburg Presbyterian Church
References
- ^ a b c "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 Eliza Smith Brown (January 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Saltsburg Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved December 5, 2011.
External links
- Town of Saltsburg, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 8 photos, 31 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Mathias Rombach House, 321 Basin Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 3 photos, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- First National Bank of Saltsburg, 214 Point Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 3 photos, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Saltsburg Academy, High & Point Streets, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 3 photos, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Saltsburg Mule Barn, 114 Point Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 6 drawings and 1 data page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Robert J. Taylor House, 211 Point Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 5 photos, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- William McIlwaine House, 241 Washington Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 1 photo, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Dr. John McFarland House, 216 Washington Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 1 photo, 6 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- St. Matthew's Catholic Church, Cathedral Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 4 photos, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Dr. Thomas Murray House, 101 Point Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 2 photos, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- 105 Point Street (House), Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 3 photos, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Wray House, 500 Market Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 4 photos, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Thomas & John Robinson House, 711 Water Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 3 photos, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- United Presbyterian Church, High Street & Ash Alley, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 1 photo, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Point Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 2 photos, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Patterson Milling Company, Feed Mill, Water & Point Streets, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 11 drawings, 14 photos, 2 data pages, 3 photo caption pages, and 2 color transparencies at Historic American Buildings Survey
- William Stewart House, 232 Point Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 19 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey
- William C. Robinson House, 103 Point Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 1 photo, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Samuel S. Moore House & Store, 222 Point Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 2 photos, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- John Martin House, 502 High Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 7 photos, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Andrew Andre House, 821 High Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 3 photos, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- James Robinson House, 425 Salt Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 2 photos, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- James McGlaughlin House, 803 Water Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 2 photos, 8 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- P. D. Shupe Hardware Store, 202 Point Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 9 photos, 8 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Sons of Zebedee Evangelical Lutheran Church, 422 Salt Street, Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 6 photos, 7 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- 706-08 Salt Street (House), Saltsburg, Indiana, PA: 3 photos, 1 data page, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
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