National Register of Historic Places
Red Lion Borough Historic District
Red Line, York County, Pennsylvania
The record
- Listed
- August 10, 2000
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- Roughly bounded by Edgewood Ave., Windsor Twp. line, MD&PA RR., Chestnut Rd., Country Club Rd., and York Twp. line., Red Line
- County
- York
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Period of significance
- 1850 to 1974
- Contributing resources
- 1482 buildings, 2 structures, 1 site
- Coordinates
- 39.90006, -76.61012
- Reference number
- 00000847
The story
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The Red Lion Borough Historic District is a historic district in York County, listed in the National Register in 2000, with buildings that are largely vernacular alongside Queen Anne, Italianate and Colonial Revival styles.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in industry, commerce and architecture and a period of significance from 1874 to 1950, opening with the Peach Bottom Railroad's construction in 1874.
Physical character
Most buildings have brick or stone walls under slate, gable or hip roofs, with metal, concrete, asbestos shingle, vinyl and concrete block on later construction. Features include paneled walls, arched openings, Palladian windows, gambrel roofs and a retaining wall. A rear addition was built onto one building in 1925, among the district's 1,482 contributing buildings, one contributing site, two contributing structures and 83 noncontributing buildings.
Historical context
The borough was incorporated in 1880, after the Peach Bottom Railroad was built in 1874, and by 1901 its line had passed to the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company. J. C. Winter & Company built a cigar factory around 1910, and Red Lion Furniture Company formed in 1907. The borough held a Golden Jubilee in 1930 for its fiftieth anniversary of incorporation, and the WPA landscaped Fairmont Park, founded in 1891, in 1938. Cigar workers struck in 1934 to protest mechanization, and New Era Tool and Die Company located in Red Lion in 1937.