Neighborhood in York, PA
Fairmount Historic District
The Fairmount Historic District combines style, comfort, and quality. The Fairmount Historic District is a national historic district in York, Pennsylvania, in the Fairmount neighborhood. In a residential section of York, the district comprises 101 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site. Queen Anne and Second Empire styles are prominent in the area, which was established between 1889 and roughly 1915. In 1999, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Fairmount Historic District is a well-preserved neighborhood of mostly Victorian-era residences on the northern bank of the Codorus Creek, which runs through York City and York County, Pennsylvania. The residential suburb is organized around one major street (North Beaver Street), which rises in elevation slightly from south to north, and three short cross streets (Jefferson, Hamilton, and Stevens Avenues). Houses on North Beaver Street tend to be big, architecturally intricate single and semi-detached homes, whilst those on the side streets are slightly smaller, with less decorative frame and brick properties, many of which are rowhouses. Queen Anne, Second Empire, Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival, and Italianate are popular architectural styles in the Fairmount area, which reflect the key era of growth from 1884 to c. 1915. Rather than displaying a single style, most homes exhibit a mix of them. The Fairmount Historic District has 101 contributing structures (all homes) and one contributing resource (a tiny park). Contributing resources are those that were built during one of the historic district’s periods of significance (c. 1850-1933), have architectural integrity, and contribute to the district’s historic character via style, age, and function. Modern project housing, commercial and industrial buildings, historic rowhouses, and the Codorus Creek surround the historic area. Despite the neglect that became pervasive in the latter part of the twentieth century, the cohesive community maintains its integrity. On Hamilton and Stevens Avenues, the duplexes and rowhouses are much smaller and have significantly less adornment than the properties on Beaver Street. A house on North Beaver Street might have a patterned slate roof with several dormers, a tall decoratively corbeled brick chimney, a bracketed cornice, windows with stained glass or Queen Anne sash, oriel windows topped with a turret or polygonal dormer, fish-scale shingles, and a full-facade or wraparound porch with spindled frieze and an oriel window, while a Hamilton Avenue rowhouse might have a slate. The five pre-Fairmount structures are generally unadorned in the Federal style’s austere fashion. The bulk of the neighborhood’s original aesthetic characteristics has been preserved. The large ratio of frame structures in the Fairmount development is a distinguishing characteristic. In York City, where the majority of the building stock is brick, this concentration of frame homes is quite unique.
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