Pleasureville Historic District Explained

Pleasureville Historic Historic
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:Roughly along North Sherman Street between Cherry Lane and Park View Road in Springettsbury, Springettsbury Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:40.0025°N -76.7047°W
Architecture:Colonial Revival, Italianate
Added:February 18, 2000
Refnum:00000057

The Pleasureville Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Springettsbury Township in York County, Pennsylvania.

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

History and architectural features

This district includes 105 contributing buildings and one contributing site that are located in the crossroad community of Pleasureville. Most of the buildings are residential, including nineteenth-century, vernacular dwellings and notable examples of early twentieth-century Colonial Revival and Italianate-style structures. Notable non-residential buildings include a former schoolhouse (c. 1870), a meeting hall (c. 1875), a former store and accessory shop (c. 1860), and a small industrial shop (c. 1930).

The contributing site is the Pleasureville Cemetery with seventy-two marked graves that date between 1865 and 1929.[1]

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania. CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Searchable database. Note: This includes Web site: [{{NRHP-PA|H104511_01H.pdf}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Pleasureville Historic District]. 2011-12-28. Elizabeth L. Roman. PDF. April 1999.