Salem Crossroads Historic District

Historic district in Pennsylvania, United States

United States historic place


Salem Crossroads Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Historic water trough on East Pittsburgh Street
40°24′44″N 79°34′10″W / 40.41222°N 79.56944°W / 40.41222; -79.56944
Area	20 acres (8.1 ha)
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Italianate
NRHP reference No.	78002484^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 18, 1978

Salem Crossroads Historic District is a national historic district located at Delmont, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 64 contributing buildings in the historic core of Delmont, originally called Salem Crossroads. The district includes buildings largely constructed between 1830 and 1870. It includes four log houses, numerous Greek Revival style buildings, the Central Hotel, a Gothic Revival style church, feed mill, wagon shop, livery stable, brickyard, blacksmith shop, and an old Ford Garage, dated to the 1920s.^[2] Plans to restore the area as a living museum never materialized.^[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.^[1]

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 Barbara A. Hoff (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Salem Crossroads Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved June 16, 2012.
^ Delmont Borough website Archived February 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine