Education Gini index Inequality in education Here: 8. Number of grocery stores : 10 Perry County : 2. Pennsylvania : 2. Number of convenience stores no gas : 3 Here : 0. State : 0. Number of convenience stores with gas : 16 Perry County : 3. State : 2. Number of full-service restaurants : 25 This county : 5. State : 7. Adult diabetes rate : Perry County : 9. Adult obesity rate : This county : Low-income preschool obesity rate : Perry County : 8.
Healthy diet rate : This city: Average overall health of teeth and gums : Newport: Average BMI : Newport: People feeling badly about themselves : Newport: People not drinking alcohol at all : Newport: Average hours sleeping at night : This city: 6. Overweight people : This city: General health condition : Newport: Average condition of hearing : This city: Here: 5. WLZS WQJU WJRC WRVV WRBT WHKF WXMJ WROZ WVNW WQKX Choose year: According to the data from the years - the average number of fires per year is The highest number of reported fire incidents - 44 took place in , and the least - 4 in The data has a declining trend.
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Pros Nearby recreation Cost of living Historic interest. Best Places to Live in Newport Rankings. Housing Market in Newport. It's a good time to buy in Newport. Home Appreciation is up Try Now. All rights reserved. BestPlaces Mobile App. Lowest Priced Homes. Most Expensive Listings. Largest Homes. Median Priced Homes. Nearby recreation. One contributing residence W. Market Street is a three-story brick and stone townhouse. Many residences have garages or outbuildings at the rear of their lots, but only a few could be identified as more than 50 years old.
Two of the bridges contribute the third, the Fourth Street Bridge, was previously listed in the National Register , and the cemetery contributes.
The community retains strong integrity. Local industries provided most of the building materials. Roughly two-thirds of the buildings are frame, numbering The remaining third are brick, numbering One stone building, a marble and sandstone bank on the northwest side of Center Square, stands in Newport.
A Foursquare N Fourth Street is constructed of cast stone rusticated concrete block. Three stone arch bridges span Little Buffalo Creek. Although the residents of Newport did not utilize native sandstone and limestone for the structure of their buildings with the exception of some of the bank , all but a dozen foundations are constructed of stone, including one as late as The remaining dozen foundations are split between concrete, either poured or blocks, and bricks.
The frame buildings feature primarily balloon frames. Cladding originally consisted of clapboards or drop or German siding.
However, less than one-quarter of the residences are clad in wooden siding today. Vinyl and aluminum siding account for two-thirds of the visible siding on frame buildings. The remaining third are sided with asbestos and asphalt composition siding, in addition to the portion that retains their wooden siding, either clapboards or drop siding. Only two log buildings and W Market Street, not contributing could be identified; local residents did not know of others.
Center Square remains the commercial hub of Newport. At each corner of the square, imposing three-story brick buildings dominate the streetscape, all of which contribute to the District. On the northwest corner, the Graham Hotel 1 N Second Street presently houses a bank and other businesses. Diagonally, on the southeast corner, the Butz Building[1] 1 S Second Street features several shops on the first floor, and apartments on the second and third.
Constructed by clothing manufacturer Jesse Butz, Sr. Across Market Street on the northeast corner stands the three-story hipped roofed Mingle House E Market Street , which retains its original function as a restaurant and hotel.
Diagonally across from the Mingle House on the southwest corner stands the Centennial Building 4 S Second Street , housing a shop on the first floor and apartments on the second and third. These four buildings, constructed within a five-year period, provide visual marker of the post-Civil War prosperity of Newport. A variety of businesses, housed in one- and two-story brick, frame, and stone structures, flank the four primary buildings. All buildings within and adjacent to Center Square are more than 50 years old, and all contribute to the District.
Because Newport's early prosperity came from shipping flour and feed, several warehouses stood along Front Street. Myers Warehouse. Dock Alley or Dock Street was named because of the dock adjacent to the Jones Warehouse, which first served river, then canal traffic. A nearby building 35 N Front Street, not contributing likely also served as a warehouse, and later became an auto dealership, with a modern concrete and glass facade.
Related industries also operated in Newport. Carriages and sleighs were constructed and repaired in the building, which later became an auto dealership. Several public buildings remain. Newport's first firehouse W Market Street , an brick structure, now houses the Borough's offices.
Six churches, all contributing to the District, from the period to remain. One, the former Presbyterian Church N Second Street , has been converted to an outreach program's local headquarters, but retains its Queen Anne style and stained glass windows. The Rider Cemetery at the end of S Fifth Street, counted as a contributing site , , retains approximately predominately nineteenth-century headstones. Three stone arch bridges span Little Buffalo Creek, all of which contribute to the District.
Although the bridges were reportedly built circa , an drawing shows both the Third and Fourth Street bridges much as they remain today. The Second Street Bridge continues to carry local traffic across the Creek. The non-contributing buildings, about half of which are post residences, comprise less than twelve percent of the total.
The post residences have primarily distinctive Ranch-style features, but because of their low profile, they are not intrusive into the streetscape. In addition, the post residences are scattered throughout town, and not clustered in a single area. Their impact on the integrity of the district as a whole is negligible. A modern supermarket and a modern post office have been excluded from the District, although they are within the Borough along the north side of Walnut Street, between N Shrub and N Peach Streets.
The most common alterations to pre buildings are the addition of vinyl or aluminum siding and the replacement of porches. Because of the large number of brick structures, the addition of vinyl or aluminum siding affects about half of the buildings in the District.
Although some of the application of these modern sidings has been unsympathetic, many residents have attempted to match in vinyl and to some extent aluminum the original siding, including appropriate color and trim details, resulting in very little impact to the integrity of the District as a whole.
Residents have replaced or altered porches. Many porches, although historic in details, do not appear to be original with the houses. However, 90 percent of the residences presently have porches. The most common alteration to the porches has been the replacement of the previously wooden floors with concrete floors.
Because the concrete floors are generally hidden behind flowers, bushes, and other plantings, they do not detract from the integrity of the house.
Porch columns have also commonly been replaced, occasionally with unsympathetic modern metal posts. Many original columns with original details remain, most with either Folk Victorian-style turned, chamfered Italianate-style , or Tuscan Classical-style columns.
Less common, despite the presence of a local iron industry, are historic wrought-iron posts or their modern replacements. The large number of residences that retain their original or sympathetic replacement porches with period detail add to the integrity of the District.
In summary, the Newport Historic District retains a large number of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century buildings. In addition, much of the layout and structure of the town remains, giving it the visual qualities demonstrative of a local residential, commercial, and industrial center of the last century.
Framed by the topography, the buildings of the District exhibit a cohesive unit of scale, massing, and building profile. The primary visual markers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries remain. The District as a whole retains strong integrity. However, Hain described the destruction of the buildings on the east side of Second Street, south of the Jones Warehouse 25 N Front Street in a fire. Perhaps the date reflects repairs or the addition of the cantilevered sidewalk.
The Newport Historic District is historically significant for its long-term contribution to regional and local commerce and industry.
In addition, the buildings of Newport remain largely intact and are generally well preserved, providing a representative example of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architecture. The dates of these buildings bracket the period of significance of the District, Industry began to overtake agricultural products in the latter part of the nineteenth century in Newport.
Tanneries, utilizing forest and agricultural products, operated in Newport. Later, forges, a brickyard, a planing mill, garment factories, a glass works, a wagon and sleigh manufactory, and a gun smithy all operated in Newport by the turn of the century.
Newport furnished products for the surrounding region, including Harrisburg and Baltimore. Newport retains significance for its collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century buildings. The cluster of commercial buildings around Center Square remains virtually intact.
Surrounding the commercial cluster on three sides is the residential area, with public buildings scattered throughout. Industrial buildings remain, primarily utilized for commercial enterprises. The buildings of the Newport Historic District comprise a representative example of a commercial, industrial, milling, and transportation center. The site of Newport began as a local milling and shipping center.
Utilizing the water of Little Buffalo Creek for power, English constructed a gristmill circa Eby Flour and feed moved downstream on flatboats, rafts, and arks to Harrisburg and Baltimore. By the time of the construction of the Harrisburg and Millerstown Turnpike, on the east side of the Juniata River, Reider and his sons operated a ferry to connect to it.
Some settlement occurred following an partition, and the fledgling town was called both Reider's Ferry and Reidertown. Newport provided local farmers with an outlet to markets.
Local carpenters assembled flatboats and arks to float the agricultural products of the area to Harrisburg and Baltimore. The completion of the Juniata Division of the Pennsylvania Canal to Millerstown in increased Newport's significance as a local market town.
The canal ran along Front Street, permitting local merchants access to goods without using the ferry.
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