Dubois Historic District is a national 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...

 located at Dubois

DuBois, Pennsylvania

DuBois is a city in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, northeast of Pittsburgh. It is the principal city in the DuBois, Pa Micropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...

, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania

Clearfield County, Pennsylvania

Clearfield County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2010, the population was 81,642.Clearfield County was created on March 26, 1804, from parts of Huntingdon and Lycoming Counties but was administered as part of Centre County until 1812...

. The district includes 54 contributing buildings in the central business district of Dubois. The district consists of mostly commercial buildings built after the fire of 1888 and in a variety of popular architectural styles including Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival architecture

The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...

, 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 Romanesque Revival

Romanesque Revival architecture

Romanesque Revival is a style of building employed beginning in the mid 19th century inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque architecture...

. Notable buildings include the Hatten & Munch Building (1897), Moore & Schwern Building (c. 1890), Methodist Episcopal Church (1889), First Baptist Church (1891), Shaw Building (1895), and DuBois Public Library (1923). Located in the district and separately listed was the Commercial Hotel

Commercial Hotel (DuBois, Pennsylvania)

Commercial Hotel, also known as the General Pershing Hotel, was a historic hotel and theater complex located in DuBois, Pennsylvania, United States. The four story brick structure opened as a two story hotel with 58 rooms in 1889. It was enlarged to four stories and 100 rooms with an expansion in...

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It was added to 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 1997.