Oil City North Side Historic District | |
Nrhp Type: | hd |
Nocat: | yes |
Location: | Roughly bounded by Conrail RR, Manning St., Park Rd., Deer St., and Linden, Hasson, Bishop, Carroll and E. Bissell Ave., Oil City, Pennsylvania |
Coordinates: | 41.435°N -79.7125°W |
Built: | 1870 |
Architecture: | Late Victorian, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals |
Added: | November 12, 1999 |
Refnum: | 99001335 |
The Oil City North Side Historic District, also known as Cottage Hill, Palace Hill, and Polish Hill, is a national historic district that is located in Oil City, Venango County, Pennsylvania.
Situated directly north of the Oil City Downtown Commercial Historic District, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
This district includes 1,140 contributing buildings that are located in a predominantly residential section of Oil City. It includes a few neighborhood commercial buildings, churches, and two schools. The houses were built between about 1870 and 1945 and were designed in a variety of popular architectural styles, including Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne, Second Empire, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, and Italianate.
This district also includes a number of working class, vernacular dwellings, especially in the Polish Hill section.[1]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.