Three square miles of the Lancaster City Historic District spread out from where you are, spanning Lancaster and Manheim Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The district measures three square miles and contains 13,459 contributing buildings, nine contributing sites, six contributing structures, and nineteen contributing objects located in the city of Lancaster.
The buildings here range from 1760 to 1950, with the majority dating from 1860 to 1930. Many were designed by Lancaster architect C. Emlen Urban, and all previously listed individual buildings, structures, and historic districts are included within this boundary. Nearby you can find an extraordinary roster of landmarks: City Hall (1891-1892), Lancaster County Prison (1851), the Miller and Hartman Building, Shaub Shoe Store, Watt & Shand, Conestoga Steam Cotton Works (1845-1910), Posey Iron Works, St. Mary's Catholic Church (1852 / 1867), Temple Shaarai Shamoyim (1895-1896), Bethel A.M.E. Church (c.
1880), the Unitarian Universalist Church of Lancaster, the Pennsylvania Railroad Station (1929), and Lancaster Cemetery. Somewhere among these streets stand City Hall, the county prison, Watt & Shand, and the Pennsylvania Railroad Station, each a landmark in its own right.