Oil City North Side Historic District

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Oil City North Side Historic District
Oil City east side from bridge.jpg
View from Veterans Memorial Bridge
Oil City North Side Historic District is located in Pennsylvania
Oil City North Side Historic District
Location Roughly bounded by Conrail RR, Manning St., Park Rd., Deer St., and Linden, Hasson, Bishop, Carroll and E. Bissell Ave., Oil City, Pennsylvania
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Area 250 acres (100 ha)
Built 1870
Architectural style Late Victorian, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals
MPS Oil Industry Resources in Western Pennsylvania MPS
NRHP Reference # 99001335[1]
Added to NRHP November 12, 1999

Oil City North Side Historic District, also known as Cottage Hill, Palace Hill, and Polish Hill, is a national historic district located at Oil City, Venango County, Pennsylvania. It is directly north of the Oil City Downtown Commercial Historic District. The district includes 1,140 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Oil City. It includes a few neighborhood commercial buildings, churches, and two schools. The houses were built between about 1870 and 1945 and are in a variety of popular architectural styles including Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne, Second Empire, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, and Italianate. It also includes a number of working class vernacular dwellings, especially in the Polish Hill section.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.[1]

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