Sunbury Historic District

Sunbury Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Edison Hotel in the Sunbury Historic District, April 2011
Location	Roughly bounded by Arch, Chestnut, Front, and 5th Sts., Sunbury, Pennsylvania
Coordinates
Area	65 acres (26 ha)
Built	ca. 1870
Architectural style	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian
NRHP Reference #	83004240
Added to NRHP	November 3, 1983

Sunbury Historic District is a national historic district located at Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 238 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Sunbury. The significant residential buildings are constructed of wood or brick, 2 1/2-stories, in a variety of architectural styles including Federal, Colonial Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne. Notable buildings include the separately listed Northumberland County Courthouse in addition to the County Jail (1876), James Tilghman House (1773), Maclay-Wolverton House (1773-1774), Keithan's Store, Central Hotel, Sunbury Textile Mills (1896), Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Depot, Edison Hotel, Masonic Temple (1907), Chestnut Street Opera House (1901), and Sunbury Market (1901). It was destroyed by a fire in 1914, and the current structure was built in the same place around 1918.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

• Sunbury PA 1st Reformed PHS588.jpg

  First Reformed Church, at 2nd and Chestnut, on an old postcard

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  First Presbyterian Church on an old postcard