What the association can tell you about Springdale, with the sources it relies on. Anything it cannot stand behind, it says so.
Springdale is a residential neighborhood inside the City of York, Pennsylvania, about half a mile south of downtown. It is bounded roughly by South George Street, South Queen Street, Lombardy Alley and Rathton Road. York College of Pennsylvania is across George Street to the west, WellSpan York Hospital just south of Rathton Road, and Penn State York about half a mile east.
Half a mile to the edge of it. From the northern corner of Springdale, at South George Street and East Springettsbury Avenue, it is 0.6 miles on foot to 240 South George Street where downtown begins — Google Maps calls that a thirteen-minute walk. Continental Square, at the centre of town, is about 0.9 miles and twenty minutes. Starting from the middle of the neighborhood rather than its edge adds roughly a third of a mile to either. There are sidewalks the whole way.
Yes. Springdale was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, reference number 01000926. The district covers about 55 acres and includes nearly 200 contributing buildings, along with one contributing site: the street plan itself.
National Register listing is primarily honorific. By itself it does not require an owner to get approval for changes to their own property; the restrictions people expect come from local historic-district ordinances, which are a separate thing. This is information rather than legal advice — for a question about a specific property, ask the City of York.
No. The Springdale Neighborhood Association, organized in 1977, is a voluntary neighborhood association and not an HOA. Dues are $40 per household per year and nobody is required to join or pay. It has no authority over private property, there are no assessments, and no approval is needed from it to alter a house.
Detached single-family houses, almost all built between the 1920s and about 1950. Each lot was sold with specifications for the house that could stand on it and buyers hired their own architects, so the styles are mixed rather than uniform: Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Spanish Eclectic, French Eclectic, Craftsman, Prairie and Neoclassical all appear, often within a block of each other.
Unusually deep for a city neighborhood, often around 150 feet. That depth is why the back gardens are real gardens and why the street trees had room to mature.
The neighborhood was planned all at once in the 1920s on the grounds of a nineteenth-century estate, then built house by individual house. The 1930s were the busiest decade and it was essentially complete by 1950. The oldest building in the district is a carriage house of about 1888, the only surviving structure from the estate.
RS-1: single-family detached residential. Preserving that zoning is one of the things the neighborhood association works on with the City.
Yes. It is a city neighborhood, not a suburb, so City of York services, taxes and school district apply. Attendance areas change, so confirm current school assignments with the district rather than relying on a neighborhood website.
The City collects trash on Tuesday and Friday, recycling on Friday, and yard waste on Tuesday from the start of March to the end of November. In a week with a holiday, that day and the rest of the week shift a day later. The full guide, with the dates worked out, is in the residents-only part of this site.
It commissioned traffic studies and worked with the City on traffic calming; it plants and maintains the landscaped traffic circles with volunteers; it worked with Historic York, Inc. to get the neighborhood listed on the National Register in 2001; it published the neighborhood history The Neighborhood of Springdale and gives a copy to every new household; it publishes a newsletter and a resident directory; and it runs the Block Party and the other traditions through the year.
Yes. There is a self-guided walking tour on this site: fifteen stops, about a mile and a quarter, on sidewalks the whole way, with a printable map. Every house on it is named in the National Register nomination. They are private homes, so everything described is visible from the public sidewalk.
The association does not sell, list or value property, and is not affiliated with any agent or brokerage. Current listings for the area appear on realtor.com, which this site links to once, on its neighborhood page.
The association has no view on that and does not give property advice — it is a volunteer group of residents, not an agent, and it has no way to substantiate a claim about prices or value. What it can tell you is the factual picture: the houses are architect-designed and mostly eighty to a hundred years old, the lots are often around 150 feet deep, downtown begins half a mile away on foot, the zoning is single-family, the neighborhood is on the National Register, and there is no homeowners association of any kind.
