Byers Station Historic District

The story

Written by AI from this property's National Register nomination and the record above; every sentence is checked against its sources before it appears here. Corrections: privacy@treealive.com

The Byers Station Historic District is a district at the junction of Byers and Eagle Farm Roads in Upper Uwchlan, Chester County, listed in the National Register in 2002. Its buildings date from 1716 to 1924 and include Italianate, Greek Revival, American Four Square and Folk Victorian styles, along with vernacular work.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in community planning and development, and in architecture, under criteria consideration G. Its period of significance runs from about 1871 to 1930, the year the Pickering Valley Railroad's line reached Byers Station and the station was built.

Physical character

Walls are weatherboard on stone foundations, and roofs are asphalt or standing seam tin. Features include Palladian windows, gambrel roofs, bracketed cornices and wooden faux quoins, and one building gained a large center dormer in the 1990s.

Historical context

The Pickering Valley Railroad Company was established in 1869 and completed its line to Byers Station in 1871. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad leased the tracks in 1872 and took over the line in 1896; the tracks were abandoned in 1948. Graphite, discovered in the fields around the village in 1875, was mined by the American Graphite Company until it closed for fraud in 1907. A building served as the Farmers Bank of Uwchland from 1920 to 1923, and the nomination names builders B.H. Downing and John Todd, who died in 1875.