Allison No. 2, Redstone Township, Fayette Co., PA
(ca.1905),
Located west of Dunlap Creek, 1 1/4 miles north of Republic, Allison No. 2, Redstone Twp., Fayette Co., PA
Owners: (ca.1905-  ?  ), W.J. Rainey Coke Company, Uniontown, PA
             (ca.1956-  ?  ), Emerald Coal & Coke Company,

The western street, township Rt. T 738, on which the public school once stood, is lined with about twenty single-story, wood frame single family dwellings; two bays wide at the front, their gable-ends face the road.

The next street to the east township Rt. T-736, is about three-quarters single family housing with the remainder, on the northeast end of the street, wood-frame, double-family gable-ended houses with two-bay second floors.  Semi-detached houses like this account for the rest of the dwellings in this northern part of the town, with the exception of one wood-frame, four family building.  Toward the northwest corner of town, this larger building's gable roof runs parallel to the street and is eight bays across. It sits on a coursed-stone foundation, and has two doors on the front and two on the back which open into the yard that goes up to the alley.

A green concrete-tile, gable roofed building, which today houses the fire department, stands on the west side of Allison No. 1; this structure may have once served as a company store or community building.

A Baptish church, dating to ca.1949, stands in the southwest corner of town.  The southern part of town, perhaps dating to a later period, also contains a mixture of single and double-family coal company housing, although the semi-detached houses predominate, a number of outhouses are extant here as well.

The Coal Company Store building for Allison No. 1 and Allison No. 2 is extant near the mine opening.  The former company store, used as a woodworking shop ca.1990, is a large two-and-one-half-story building with common-bond red brick walls.  It measures about 40 feet x 30 feet and retains a number of its original one-over-one-light windows at the second-story level.  Stone lintels span the window openings.  The gable roof is probably supported by riveted steel roof trusses.  The original storefront has been removed and two of the three doorways have been infilled with brick and stone.  Most of the windows on the frist floor have been infilled with brick.  The building rests on a stone foundation.

The Allison No. 2 school house was located on the west side of the patch, the foundations of the school building are all that are extant, the building itself has been torn down.

The majority of the houses in Allison No. 2 are single family structures, there are three types extant, although plenty of semi-detached houses also remain.

Five, large, two-and-one-half story wood-frame managers' houses line the street on the northeast side of town, township route T 944, just west of where the Allison No. 2 Mine entry and coke works once stood.  With intersecting gable roofs, these structures sit on coursed-ashlar foundations and have one central brick chimney. Parallel to these managers houses, running north to south, there are three streets of the typical two-family Rainey Coke Compay town housing.  With their gable-ends facing the road, these wood-frame semi-detached dwellings are four bays downstairs and two bays on the second floor.  They rest on coursed-stone or concrete block foundations and have full shed-roof front porches.

All of the east-west streets in Allison No. 2 have single-family miners' housing on them.  Most of these are narrow, two-bay, two-story wood frame buildings with one interior brick chimney, shed-roof front porches, and single-story shed-roof rear additions.  The southernmost road in Allison No. 2 is a loop on which sit seven larger, two-story single-family houses.  These side-gable two-bay dwellings sit on concrete-block foundations, andhave small shed-roof front porches over their off-center doorways.

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