The Rarest House in Kistler — Huntingdon County Information Page

12. VIEW OF DOUBLE MOUNTAIN-STYLE HOUSES LOOKING SOUTHEAST ON BIRCH STREET. - Town of KistlerLibrary of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record. No known copyright restrictions. pa2824.photos.038911p

Seven Double Mountain Houses were built in 1917 for workers in Kistler, the company town of Mount Union Refractories across the Juniata River from Mount Union. Only three of the seven were still standing when the federal surveyors counted in 1991. Each duplex stands one and one-half stories tall, distinguished by a rectangular plan, gable roof with pent eaves, a wide shed roof dormer on the front, and double front entrance porches. The Double Mountain House was one of six house types designed for the industrial village by the New York architectural firm Mann and MacNeill under landscape architect John Nolen's town plan. Among all the house types built for Kistler, this one faced the steepest loss.

Nothing further from the county histories. The six histories held here end in 1913 and this story belongs to 1991, so there is no passage in them that bears on it. Rather than attach an unrelated page and let it look like corroboration, this story stands on the sources listed below.

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Checked 2026-09-23 · Historic Mount Union collection

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