Star Junction Historic District

	Star Junction Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Old company store in Star Junction, May 1989
Location	Roughly the jct. of PA 51 and PA 4036, including Post Office Rd., Church St., PA 532, and Old Ridge Rd., Perry Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°03′42″N 79°45′43″W / 40.06167°N 79.76194°W
Area	100 acres (40 ha)
Built	1892
Built by	Washington Coal and Coke
Architectural style	company built miner's duplex
MPS	Bituminous Coal and Coke Resources of Pennsylvania MPS
NRHP reference No.	97001244
Added to NRHP	October 24, 1997

The Star Junction Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Perry Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.^[1]

History and architectural features

This district includes 163 contributing buildings and two contributing structures that are located in the bituminous coal mining community of Star Junction. Most of the contributing buildings were built between 1892 and 1918; 130 are two-story, frame duplex workers' houses. The oldest building is the Whitsett farmhouse; it was built circa 1845. Other buildings and structures include twenty-two mine managers' dwellings ("Tony Row"), two former mine buildings, two churches, a parsonage, two commercial buildings, a concrete highway bridge (1921), and n earthen dam reservoir (c. 1892).^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.^[1]