September 27, 1999 is when the Johnsonburg Commercial Historic District was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the Johnsonburg Community Trust.

Follow the link below to learn more on the history and importance of Johnsonburg's architectural history as well as the historic buildings listed in the Commercial Historic District.

The Johnsonburg Commercial Historic District is a 6-acre district which contains the historic buildings of the central business district of the Borough of Johnsonburg, located in Elk County, in north-central Pennsylvania.

The community is small and rural in character, although heavily industrialized, and lies at the confluence of two branches of the

Clarion River, nine miles north of Ridgway, the county seat. The buildings within the district date from between 1890 and the late 1930s, are primarily of brick, and are of two and three stories in height.

The architectural styles evident within the district include Italianate, Colonial and Neo-Classical Revivals, and Art Deco; some buildings are built without reference to academic style. The district includes portions of Center Street (U. S. Route 219) and Market Streets, which run roughly parallel to each other, and Bridge Street, which connects the two streets at right angles near the south boundary of the district. Just outside the district at the north end of Market Street, the Williamette Paper Mill physically dominates the skyline of the northern terminus of the district.

Thirty-eight individual resources are in the district, of which thirty-three (85%) contribute to the character of the district and five (15%) are noncontributing. Of the thirty-eight resources in the district, thirty-seven are buildings and one—a piece of religious statuary—is a contributing object. Approximately 20% of the buildings in the

district were built between c. 1890 and 1900, about 70% between 1900 and 1945 and approximately 10% after World War II.

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995980

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