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Bear Creek Village Historic District

Bear Creek Village Historic District
Bear Creek HD LuzCo PA.jpg
Former store on White Haven Road
Bear Creek Village Historic District is located in Pennsylvania
Bear Creek Village Historic District
Bear Creek Village Historic District is located in the US
Bear Creek Village Historic District
Location PA 115 at Bear Creek Dam, Bear Creek Village, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 41°11′00″N 75°45′20″W / 41.18333°N 75.75556°W / 41.18333; -75.75556Coordinates: 41°11′00″N 75°45′20″W / 41.18333°N 75.75556°W / 41.18333; -75.75556
Area 222 acres (90 ha)
Built 1881
Architect Raife, Phillip R.; et al.
Architectural style Stick/eastlake, Colonial Revival
NRHP reference # 99001287
Added to NRHP October 28, 1999

Bear Creek Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Bear Creek Village, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 55 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures in the borough of Bear Creek Village. It includes houses and workers' cottages, summer cottages, outbuildings, churches, cemeteries, a dam and lake, and the remains of 19th and early 20th century lumbering and ice industries. Notable contributing resources include the Bear Creek Dam, Albert Lewis Residence (1895, 1922-1923), The Pines (c. 1875), Grace Chapel (1884), the Lewis Family Cemetery, former St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church (1911), store and post office (c. 1885), Bear Creek Association clubhouse (c. 1920), and former Lehigh Valley Railroad Station (c. 1895).

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Front of Lewis Mansion

Lewis Mansion



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