WINDBER HOTEL

Formerly the Hotel Leister, the Windber Hotel was constructed c. 1897. In addition to the numerous boarding houses in the town, there were once as many as 11 hotels in Windber. The brick structure is ornamented with a cast iron cornice and parapet, as well as, the cast iron surrounding the windows. 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.