Pottstown Landing Historic District

The story

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Pottstown Landing Historic District is a historic district in North Coventry, Chester County, Pennsylvania, bounded roughly by US 422 By-Pass, Whartnaby Street, Laurelwood Road and Reiff Street, and listed in the National Register in 2001. It covers 21.9 acres and includes 76 contributing buildings, with houses built from about 1780 to 1947 in styles such as Colonial Farmhouse and Victorian Gothic.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criteria A and C, with local significance in architecture and community planning and development. Its period of significance runs from 1780 to 1950, from a building dated to about 1780 to the 1950 closing of a local bakery.

Physical character

Walls are stone, brick, frame and stucco on stone and brick foundations, roofs are slate, metal, tin and asphalt, and features include a full-width front porch and a Palladian window. One house's roof was changed to a cross-gable Gothic form in 1884, and another gained a third floor with a dormer added in 1986.

Historical context

Thomas Millard sold 100 acres to Abraham Reiff in 1750, and Hans Woolf-Miller sold 165 acres to John and Susannah Wells in 1761, on land that had been surveyed by 1703. The Schuylkill Canal reached Port Clinton in 1824, and the village did not take shape until it was finished in the 1830s; it was abandoned after 1872, fell into demise in 1886, and the Schuylkill Navigation Company dissolved in 1949.