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Fred D. Smith Collection of Photos and Postcards of North Allegheny Street

 

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North Allegheny Street, Bellefonte, PA
North Allegheny Street, looking north from Howard Street. Fred D Smith Collection

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Diamond looking north on Allegheny

100 block, Crider Exchange on left

Crider Exchange built 1889 after a fire, with unusual fishscale tin facade, an example of picturesque eclectic architecture

100 block, earlier view

100 block, east side

Crider Exchange at Pike Alley

Corner of Allegheny and Howard Streets

Present site of Omega Bank

Potter home at Howard and N. Allegheny

Built in 1815 by John Miles. The Georgian building was moved back 12 feet in 1896. It is now the Centre County Library and Historical Museum

Potter home, looking north on Allegheny

Potter home in bunting for 100th anniversary

This home at the corner of Howard and N. Allegheny Sts. was demolished for the Post Office

The new post office under construction

at Allegheny and Howard

New post office under construction

new post office under construction

The finished new post office

This home at the corner of Howard and N. Allegheny Sts. was demolished for the new Centre County Library

Demolished home

Episcopal church at Allegheny and Lamb St.

Episcopal church

Episcopal church social hall

Hastings mansion at Allegheny and Lamb

Purchased by Gov. Hastings in the 1890s, who added a portico and windows after the Old State Capitol. A polyglot of architectural ideas.

Hastings Mansion

former Lutheran church at Allegheny and Linn St.

former Lutheran church

North ward school on Allegheny between Linn and Lamb

North ward school

Torn down in 1909

North Ward school

Bellefonte high school

same location as North ward school

Bellefonte high school

Bellefonte high school

Bellefonte high school

Bellefonte high school

playground at rear of high school

Fire at high school

high school fire

high school fire

high school after fire

Rebuilt, now the elementary school

Reynolds mansion at Allegheny and Linn St.

Built in 1883-84 by Major William F Reynolds, in Gothic Italianate style. It was later the home of Col. W Fred Reynolds, instrumental in locating the Match Factory in Bellefonte. Now a B&B.

Mansion of James A Beaver, lawyer, Civil War officer, Pennsylvania governor 187-1891, acting president of Penn State

At Allegheny and Curtin, no longer present

Rear of Ex-gov. Beaver's mansion

At the NW corner of W Curtin and N Allegheny