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| DESCRIPTION: The town of Bovard (Crows Nest) is composed of three parallel streets (1st, 2nd, and 3rd) lined with approximately 120 houses, and one perpendicular street (the Cloverdale section of Bovard) on which is situated ten houses. The company store stands at 1st. and Jefferson streets. It is a two-story building with common-bond red-brick walls and measures 85' x 52'; it has a flat metal roof and rests on coursed rubble stone foundation. The windows are spanned by brick voussoirs, though some window openings are spanned by stone lintels. Some of the windows have been infilled with brick and the building was used for storage (ca.1994). At the present time (ca.1999) the building has been remodeled and is being used by a retail company. |
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Map of Bovard
Map of the company patch town of Bovard
(Crowsnest) and the Crows Nest Mine, from a Keystone Coal & Coke
Company map. (Photo courtesy of Charles "Chubby" W. Kocur and The Bovard 75th Anniversary Committee, Bovard, Pa.) |
| The community hall, originally called the auditorium by Keystone Coal & Coke Company, is opposite the company store. It is a one-and one-half story wood-frame building with a full basement. The building contains a gable roof and rests on a rubble stone foundation. |
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The Auditorium The Community Hall at Bovard, PA as it appeared ca.2000, the building interior and basement have been altered for reuse by a construction company. (Captured from a video taken by Raymond A. Washlaski, Nov., 2000) |
| The Company-built dwellings include single-family and double-houses. The single-family and double family houses are of wood-frame construction. The first houses in Bovard were constructed in 1910, followed by the building of the community hall in 1911, and the new company store in 1912. Harry Bovard built the Union Church in Bovard. Keystone Coal & Coke Company donated land for St. Bede's Church and sold property to Hempfield Township in 1911 for the erection of a township school. |
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Bovard Company Houses Company houses along Third Street in Bovard (Captured from a video taken by Raymond A. Washlaski, Nov., 2000) |
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Company Houses in Bovard Company houses along Second Street in Bovard. (Captured from a video taken by Raymond A. Washlaski, Nov., 2000) |
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Bovard School The original Hempfield Township School building in Bovard. (Photo courtesy of Charles "Chubby" W. Kocur and The Bovard 75th Anniversary Committee, Bovard, Pa.) |
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