Pleasureville Historic District

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Pleasureville Historic Historic
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LocationRoughly along North Sherman Street between Cherry Lane and Park View Road in Springettsbury, Springettsbury Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°00′09″N76°42′17″W / 40.00250°N 76.70472°W / 40.00250; -76.70472
Area35.1 acres (14.2 ha)
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Italianate
NRHP reference No. 00000057 [1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 18, 2000

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. [1]

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. [2]

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System.Note: This includes Elizabeth L. Roman (April 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Pleasureville Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved December 28, 2011.