Beallsville Historic District is a 40 acres (16.2 ha) historic district

Historic district (United States)

In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...

 in Beallsville, Pennsylvania

Beallsville, Pennsylvania

Beallsville is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 511 at the 2000 census. Much of the borough has been designated the Beallsville Historic District.-Geography:Beallsville is located at ....

. It is designated as a historic district by the Washington County History & Landmarks Foundation

Washington County History & Landmarks Foundation

Washington County History & Landmarks Foundation is a non-profit educational institution in Washington, Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to encourage and assist the preservation of historic structures in Washington County, Pennsylvania...

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The district covers a "typical pike town" of the National Road

National Road

The National Road or Cumberland Road was the first major improved highway in the United States to be built by the federal government. Construction began heading west in 1811 at Cumberland, Maryland, on the Potomac River. It crossed the Allegheny Mountains and southwestern Pennsylvania, reaching...

 through this area, meeting criteria laid out in a Multiple Property Submission study. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 in 1996. In 1996, there were 91 contributing buildings, 1 other contributing site (the Beallsville Cemetery), 1 other contributing object (a c.1835 National Road iron milestone marker), and 29 non-contributing buildings, in the district.

In the western part of the district the buildings are largely vernacular with Greek Revival

Greek Revival architecture

The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture...

 or Federal

Federal architecture

Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the United States between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815. This style shares its name with its era, the Federal Period. The name Federal style is also used in association with furniture design...

 architectural influences showing in many, from the National Road era of 1818-1852. The eastern part of the district includes larger Italianate

Italianate architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and...

 and Queen Anne style houses from later in the 19th century.

Significant properties in the district include:

• 984 Maiden Street, the oldest building in the district, a log building from 1788 that was home of town founder Zephaniah Beall
• the 1821 Greenfield Stand, a.k.a. Greenfield Tavern, at 2848 Maiden Street
• the John Hough House, at 2852 Main Street, an "unassuming" house of a tollkeeper on the road
• Beallsville Methodist-Episcopal Church, from 1874