Star Junction Historic District


The Star Junction Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Perry Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

History and architectural features

This district includes 163 contributing buildings and two contributing structures that are located in the bituminous coal mining community of Star Junction. Most of the contributing buildings were built between 1892 and 1918; 130 are two-story, frame duplex workers' houses. The oldest building is the Whitsett farmhouse; it was built circa 1845. Other buildings and structures include twenty-two mine managers' dwellings, two former mine buildings, two churches, a parsonage, two commercial buildings, a concrete highway bridge, and n earthen dam reservoir.