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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Westmoreland County , Pennsylvania , United States .
Central Kensington, or "the Heart of Kensington" as it is called in a recent Impact Services neighborhood plan, [8] stretches along Kensington Avenue from Tusculum and Somerset Streets to Tioga Street (see Impact Services plan [8] for a more accurate map). The area is known as the center of Kensington and was historically the commercial center ...
Also, the counts in this table exclude boundary increase and decrease listings which modify the area covered by an existing property or district and which carry a separate National Register reference number. 16 percent of the NRHP's in Pennsylvania are in Philadelphia, and nearly 40 percent are located within the Delaware Valley.
Captain Anthony Palmer originally laid out Kensington as a town in the 1730s. Palmer, an English merchant by way of Barbados, had come to colonial Pennsylvania about 1704, investing in land while continuing his mercantile business interests. He eventually turned to politics and was invited to join the Pennsylvania Council, which he did by 1710.
This district encompasses 143 contributing buildings that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of New Kensington. Built roughly between 1891 and 1947, they are a mix of residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial properties that were designed in a variety of popular architectural styles, including Art Deco, Beaux-Arts, and Colonial Revival.
HAER No. PA-337-E, "Alcoa-New Kensington Works, Packing & Job Shop", 1 photo, 1 photo caption page HAER No. PA-295, " Alcoa Research Laboratory, Freeport Road, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA ", 8 photos, 4 data pages, 1 photo caption page
Harrowgate is a neighborhood in the River Wards section [1] of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, located immediately northeast of Kensington adjacent to Kensington Avenue. It is bordered by Feltonville, Juniata and Frankford to the north, Fairhill to the west, West Kensington and Kensington to the south, and Port Richmond and ...
The 26th District Police and Patrol Station is a historic police station in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect John T. Windrim (1866-1934) and built in 1896. It and is a three-story, "L"-plan, brownstone and brick building in the Renaissance style.