Unionville Historic District is a national historic district

Historic district (United States)

In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...

 located at Unionville

Unionville, Pennsylvania

Unionville is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania:*Unionville, Centre County, Pennsylvania*Unionville, Chester County, Pennsylvania*Neffs, Pennsylvania in Lehigh County, historically called Unionville...

, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Centre County, Pennsylvania

Centre County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2010, the population was 153,990....

. The district includes 173 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites in the central business district

Central business district

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 and surrounding residential area of Unionville. The buildings are primarily residential and date as early as 1848 and include a number of plan "I"-pan houses and other vernacular or folk house types. Notable non-residential buildings include the Moses-Taylor Tavern, Peters Temperance House, Union Church, Methodist Church (c. 1860), Griest Store, and Union Grange Hall.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1979.