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Historic district in Pennsylvania, United States

Cambria City Historic District

Cambria City Historic District is a national historic district located at Johnstown in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Cambria City Historic District
Cambria City Historic District · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Cambria City Historic District is a national historic district located at Johnstown in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. The district includes 198 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly working-class residential area of Johnstown. Though predominantly residential, it also includes a small business district and industrial buildings such as a former brewery, bottling plant, and slaughter house, along with a notable collection of churches, schools, and a fire station. The district includes some buildings dated before the Johnstown Flood, but the majority date from 1890 to 1920. Notable buildings include the collection of two-story, balloon frame, detached and semi-detached dwellings, Fifth Avenue Hotel (1889), Pollack Building (1905), former Cambria Fire Hose and Ladder Company (1890), former Germana Brewery (1907), August and Louisa Mayer Building (1907), Tulip Bottling Company (1913-1949), St. Casimer's Polish Church (1907), Immaculate Conception Church (1908), St. Stephen's Slovak Church (1914), St. Columba Church (1914), St. Mary's Greek Catholic Church (1922), Venue Of Merging Arts, Hungarian Reformed Church (1902), and First Catholic Slovak Band Hall (1913-1949). The contributing structure is the Minersville Bridge (1914).

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cambria City Historic District

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Cathedral of Saint John Gualbert

    St. John Gualbert Cathedral is the co-cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona–Johnstown, located in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States.

    2.1 km · church in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Inclined Plane Bridge

    The Inclined Plane Bridge is a 237-foot, Pennsylvania through truss bridge that spans Stonycreek River in Johnstown, Cambria County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It connects the city to the lower station of the Johnstown Inclined Plane.

    1.7 km · Bridge in Johnstown, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cambria County War Memorial Arena

    The Cambria County War Memorial Arena is a 4,001-seat multi-purpose arena in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. It is managed by SMG Entertainment.

    2.1 km · indoor Arena in Johnstown,PA · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Johnstown Flood Museum

    The Johnstown Flood Museum is a history museum located in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, dedicated to the Johnstown Flood of 1889. The museum is housed in the former Cambria Public Library, which is part of the Downtown Johnstown Historic District.

    1.6 km · Historic building in Johnstown, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Point Stadium

    Sargent's Stadium at the Point is a baseball park in the eastern United States, located in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The "Point" refers to its location at the confluence of the Little Conemaugh, Stonycreek, and Conemaugh rivers.

    1.4 km · baseball stadium · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Stone Bridge

    The Stone Bridge spans the Conemaugh River in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The bridge is a seven-arch stone railroad bridge located on the Norfolk Southern Railway's Pittsburgh Line, built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1887–88.

    1 km · bridge in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, US · Wikipedia

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Getting to Cambria City Historic District

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Pittsburgh (PIT), 112 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 200 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 232 km
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Johnstown station, 1.4 km
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cambria City Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    490 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    927 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,573 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,660 km
  5. 05
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,787 km

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