Nichols was arrested and theprogressnews. Maze madness reigns as farmers embrace fall agritourism State bradfordera com. This borough: 0.
Carrolltown borough, PA 1. Hastings borough, PA 2. Allport, PA 2. Northern Cambria borough, PA 2. Ashville borough, PA 2. Westover borough, PA 2. Loretto borough, PA 3. Property values in Patton, PA. Here: 6. Health care Public administration Laborers and material movers, hand 4. Laborers and material movers, hand 8. Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides 9. Air pollution and air quality trends lower is better. City: City: 0. City: 8. City: 7. Services: ticket office, fully wheelchair accessible, enclosed waiting area, public restrooms, public payphones, snack bar, paid short-term parking, paid long-term parking, call for taxi service, intercity bus service, public transit connection.
Local government website: www. Average household size: This borough: 2. Percentage of family households: This borough: Percentage of households with unmarried partners: This borough: 6. Education Gini index Inequality in education Here: Number of grocery stores : 31 Here : 2.
State : 2. Number of supercenters and club stores : 1 This county : 0. Pennsylvania : 0. Number of convenience stores no gas : 12 This county : 0. State : 0. Number of convenience stores with gas : 38 This county : 2. Pennsylvania : 2. Number of full-service restaurants : 82 This county : 5. Pennsylvania : 7. Adult diabetes rate : Cambria County : Adult obesity rate : This county : Low-income preschool obesity rate : This county : 8.
Healthy diet rate : Here: Average overall health of teeth and gums : Patton: Average BMI : Patton: Average hours sleeping at night : Patton: 5. Overweight people : Patton: General health condition : Patton: Average condition of hearing : Here: Here: 2. Here: 3. WPCL WQEJ WFRJ WQKK Choose year: According to the data from the years - the average number of fires per year is 8. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 24 took place in , and the least - 0 in The data has an increasing trend.
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires Top Patent Applicants. Familiar with Greensburg and surrounding area? Stiles House at North Fifth Avenue. There is a two-and-one-half story multi-gable roof, wraparound porch, original clapboard siding, and well preserved interior fabric including wood grained doors and trim.
Significant numbers of well preserved vernacular houses are located throughout the district. A number are built in brick, attesting to easily available and affordable masonry products in turn of the century Patton.
The identical side by side Prindible Houses, substantial brick dwellings, dominate the north end of North Fifth Avenue in the district. The house at North Fifth dates ca. Each has twin steep cross gables, Stick style paneled gable ends, and massive wrap around porches with curvilinear brackets and turned balusters. The prominent corner location and elevated porches further magnify the prominence of the pair.
The Dr. Murray House , North Fifth Avenue, another brick house, has stone sills and lintels, side and rear porches with paneled posts and turned balusters, and a beveled two story bay window. Fine interior details include egg and dart moldings over doorways and a stained hardwood staircase with turned balusters and decorative newel post. The modest 3 bay brick home ca. A wood frame L-shaped house ca.
Palmer Avenue, with a few exceptions, is occupied by modest dwellings including the north side of Palmer where the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Co. Each is a small, two story, T-shaped, side gable house with a full width front porch and small rear porch. The Crowell's House, at Palmer, retains the standard interior layout with a centered front porch door leading to side by side living and dining rooms. The kitchen is located in the rear wing.
The stairway on the living room's rear wall leads to a small upstairs hall accessing three bedrooms. A full basement dug out in recent years allowed installation of central heating, replacing small stoves in first floor rooms. Many of these former company homes have had vinyl siding and new windows installed as energy saving measures.
Churches and related buildings are an important component of the district. At the center of St. Mary's Catholic parish complex on Sixth Avenue is the Romanesque Revival style church building, flanked by the rectory , Sixth Avenue, and school , Sixth Avenue. The Parish Hall, located on Palmer Avenue just outside the district boundary, was put up in Mary's Church , Sixth Avenue, is Patton's largest and one of its finest displays of masonry workmanship.
This 56 by foot edifice, seating parishioners, is highlighted by a massive bell tower and spire, executed in polychrome brick. Architectural details include contrasting brick pilasters, corbelling, and stained glass windows.
The vacant parish school, located at Sixth and Beech Avenues, has changed little over eighty-two years except for the removal of the bell tower. The architectural focus is a projecting center entrance pavilion and a series of stacked, round headed, stained glass window units: a transom over the doorway, an oversized window group on the stair landing, and a half circle window in the gable. Groups of four curvilinear brackets supported by corbelled brick bases are other decorative features.
Rough faced stone sills, lintels, and a raised foundation contrast the red brick walls. Built in , the building was gutted by fire in , substantially rebuilt and reopened in Despite alterations, the building remains a contributing resource.
The church's red brick walls, fenestration pattern and tower are still intact as are corner buttresses and stone details. The interior's tasteful redesign included new art glass windows, a beamed ceiling and hardwood pews. The east wing's flat roof, replacing the original conical roof, preserves the wing's semicircular dimensions.
Saint Peter and Paul Byzantine Catholic Church , Palmer Avenue, has stained glass windows and an iconostas or screen with icons and holy images. The front steps, added in , feature a tiled panel dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Its short six sided tower, topped with a small onion dome and Byzantine cross, contains the two original church bells.
There are lancet arches in the louvered belfry and side windows. Side windows have stained glass sash installed in The rear of this rectangular church has a protruding apse.
Despite loss of the original candle lit chandelier and potbelly stove, original wainscoting survives under the wall paneling and parish icons are prominent. A second institutional type present in the district is the public school.
The Middle School features Gothic details in the center entrance framed with stone voussoirs, segmental brick arches, and stone waterlines. The High School building, which projects out nearly to the edge of the sidewalk, displays Gothic ornament around its main entrance, in blind pointed arches, stone courses, and a lancet arched portal made out of cut stone.
There are a total of 49 buildings in the district. In all but one case, a ca. Examples include the once elaborate Queen Anne style house at Beech Avenue, with vinyl siding and new small window units.
Similarly, North Fifth Avenue's complete exterior redesign with new windows and vinyl siding has removed any evidence of historic building fabric. Vinyl siding, window replacements, altering or eliminating porches, and removing architectural details are relatively common occurrences and in combination can significantly alter a building's historic integrity. Many dwellings in the district have been altered but still retain their basic architectural integrity. The house at Beech Avenue, although it is resided with asphalt shingles, retains Queen Anne windows, dormers and eave consoles.
The J. Murray House, on North Fifth, lacks its original front porch, removed for maintenance reasons. However, it retains both side and rear porch, old windows, stone sills and lintels, and other original features.
Company-built houses on Palmer Avenue, built to identical specifications, have been individualized by owners over the years. New siding, windows and enclosed porches are common, but the houses retain a common building shape, roof type, fenestration pattern, and orientation to the street.
Several modern day building additions are notable for their compatibility with the district's historic fabric. The United Methodist Church, rebuilt following a disastrous fire, retains large sections of the original brick walls, with new art glass windows, a beamed ceiling and hardwood pews added.
The front porch of Tranquil Manor, the former W. Sanford House on Palmer Avenue, was rebuilt in recent years much like the original. Now converted to a personal care facility, it provides a home-like atmosphere for its residents. The Doric columned front porch, segmental arched windows and interior woodwork have all been preserved in this adaptive reuse project. The overall district maintains a high degree of integrity. Despite alterations made to many buildings, their exteriors remain largely intact.
The Patton Historic District is significant for its late nineteenth and early twentieth century style architecture. The district is one of Patton's major concentrations of architecturally styled houses. It also includes vernacular housing, some of it built for workers employed by the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Company, Cambria County's largest coal company in the early twentieth century.
There is also a well preserved group of institutional buildings, including four churches and three school buildings, several displaying Romanesque Revival architecture. The district is also significant in the area of industry, based on its association with the Chest Creek Improvement Company, Patton Clay Manufacturing Company, nearby coal mines and related industries.
It contains the houses of industrial managers and company houses, reflecting the importance of these major industries to the local economy. The district's period of significance begins in when the settlement of Patton was started and ends in , after which very little new construction took place. See also: Patton Borough: Beginnings. In contrast to most coal patch towns, Patton's founders envisioned a diversified town.
They invested in a variety of businesses, in addition to coal mines, in and around Patton. The founders speculated in residential lots and invested in hotels, retail businesses and a clay goods manufacturing plant. Benefiting from this development were local secondary industries including lumber, railroad, hauling, and agriculture, which further expanded the job base.
Patton Clay Manufacturing Company was established in by G. Good, James Kerr, and Alexander Patton. The company was lured from West Virginia by the promise of excellent rail linkages, an ample labor supply and easily accessible clay and coal deposits.
Patton Clay Company built its manufacturing plant just outside the district's north end at Terra Cotta Street torn down ca. It produced many clay products including sewer pipe and built a reputation for Patton building and paving bricks, which were shipped worldwide.
Many homes, businesses, streets and sidewalks in the district are built with Patton bricks. In the Borough of Patton opened its first public school, located at Beech Avenue. This massive two story brick building was designed by the firm of Robinson and Snyder of Altoona and built by W.
Auman of Patton. The two buildings were joined by a ground level walkway. Otherwise vernacular, both buildings have formal entry portals enriched with Gothic detailing. Mary's Catholic and Trinity United Methodist.
The original St. Mary's Church no longer stands. Construction of the church was assisted by a financial contribution from John Patton. Goff, a local civil engineer, designed the building. By the turn of the century, as the Borough's population continued to expand, three new churches were built in the district.
Trinity United Methodist Church outgrew their first building and purchased land at the corner of Fifth and Beech Avenues where they constructed a larger brick church in It was designed by Charles M. Robinson of Altoona. The Romanesque Revival style edifice was gutted by fire in and rebuilt in , under the direction of architect George C. Mary's Catholic Church congregation outgrew its first building, which was removed from the site and transported out of the district to house another congregation.
In , St. Mary's built both a new Romanesque Revival style brick church and a Foursquare design polychrome brick rectory. Building materials and labor were donated by parishioners. The congregation purchased additional land on the west side of Sixth Avenue and built a brick Romanesque Revival parochial school ; occupied until They also purchased a 12 room residence for a convent demolished The church is distinguished by a small onion dome atop the bell tower. The fourth congregation located in the district, St.
This vernacular frame structure, later sheathed in brick, added an iconostas in Patton's major industry, mining, employed over miners who resided in the Borough at the turn of the century. Privately financed housing was not built fast enough to house all the new workers and their families.
The Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Company built groups of company houses for its employees on several streets in Patton. One group ca. These six identical vernacular two story, T-shaped wood plank buildings are characteristic of the coal company houses built in Patton around the turn of the century.
The construction of Patton Clay Manufacturing Company in , just outside the north line of the district, made building lots in the district attractive to both blue collar and management employees. The twin Prindible Houses ca.
0コメント