WINDBER'S HISTORIC 15th STREET

Fifteenth Street is lined with historic buildings; the Post Office and Wilmore Coal Company Offices, Windber Hotel, Lochrie/Clement Building, Windber Electric Company Building. Eureka Department Store, Windber Trust Building, Berwind-White Company Offices. Historic houses also line 15th Street; the mine superintendents house, Shaffer House and John Lochrie House. In 1991 the Windber Historic District was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places. The district includes most of the original Berwind-White planned grid, and encompasses land and buildings in both Cambria and Somerset Counties. Windber was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places for its significance to the "history of industry, community planning and development, social history, ethnic heritage and architecture," as an example of both a typical western Pennsylvania coal mining community and as a unique example of a planned company town.