Oil City North Side Historic District


Oil City North Side Historic District, also known as Cottage Hill, Palace Hill, and Polish Hill, is a national historic district located at Oil City, Venango County, Pennsylvania. It is directly north of the Oil City Downtown Commercial Historic District. The district includes 1,140 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Oil City. It includes a few neighborhood commercial buildings, churches, and two schools. The houses were built between about 1870 and 1945 and are in a variety of popular architectural styles including Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne, Second Empire, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, and Italianate. It also includes a number of working class vernacular dwellings, especially in the Polish Hill section.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.