Editing Cresson, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
=== Mountainhouse era ===
[[File:US-PA(1891) p721 CRESSON SPRINGS.jpg|thumb|(1891) CRESSON SPRINGS]]
One of the first buildings in the area which would become Cresson was the Mountainhouse Hotel. The [[Queen Anne style architecture in the United States|Queen Anne style]] structure was opened by the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] in 1881, sold to the Cresson Springs Co., and demolished in 1916. It was hoped to attract visitors from Pittsburgh and [[Johnstown, Pennsylvania|Johnstown]] looking for clean air and "therapeutic" mineral springs. Although itself unsuccessful, it led to the development of several other hotels, companies, and the town itself.

The area is currently known as the "Mountainhouse Grounds" to local residents and is in the midst of development. Several of the original cottages still stand, including those of [[Andrew Carnegie]] and [[Benjamin Franklin Jones (industrialist)|Benjamin Jones]].<ref>Anne Francis Pulling. ''Around Cresson and the Alleghenies''. {{ISBN|9780738590400}}</ref>

=== Stereographs of R.A. Bonine ===
Photographer R.A. Bonine of [[Altoona, Pennsylvania|Altoona]] took several [[Stereoscopy|stereographs]] of the Cresson area, including the Mountainhouse during the 1870-1880s. The following were included in his series "Views Among the Alleghenies".
<gallery mode=packed>
File:Cresson, a summer resort on the P. R. R. among the wilds of the Alleghenies, by R. A. Bonine 4.jpg|Mountainhouse Hotel
File:Winter at Cresson, summer resort, on the P. R. R. among the wilds of the Alleghenies, by R. A. Bonine 10.jpg|Cresson Springs Co. Building 
File:Cresson, a summer resort on the P. R. R. among the wilds of the Alleghenies, by R. A. Bonine 8.jpg|Hotel from Railroad Station
File:P. R. R. Depot at Cresson, looking east, by R. A. Bonine 2.jpg|Railroad Depot (looking east)
File:Cresson, a summer resort on the P. R. R. among the wilds of the Alleghenies, by R. A. Bonine 10.jpg|Muller Cottage
</gallery>