Bellefonte Historical and Cultural Association
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania

Fred D. Smith Collection of Photos and Postcards One Block South of The Diamond: Bishop Street

 

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West Bishop Street, Bellefonte, PA
West Bishop Street, looking west toward The Academy from South Allegheny Street. Fred D Smith Collection

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The school on E. Bishop St. ~1910

once the high school, now apartments

The school on E. Bishop St.

The school on E. Bishop St.

St. John Catholic Church

Undine Fire Company ~1900

Looking east on Bishop from the corner of Allegheny

Looking west on Bishop toward the Academy

This 100 block of W. Bishop is considered by Dr. Peirce Lewis, Prof. of Geography at Penn State, to be historically a "municipal treasure" reflecting pre-Civil War Bellefonte.

An earlier view of the same block of W. Bishop St.