[1] This district includes 330 contributing buildings that are located in a predominantly residential area in southern Johnstown.

There are 315 contributing dwellings, seventeen former carriage house/horse barns, twenty-one commercial buildings, ten churches, and one former school.

[2] The Moxham district is typical of nineteenth-century, western Pennsylvania industrial communities, in this instance growing around the Johnston Steel Street Rail Company.

The district was designed for a variety of social levels, whereas most nearby neighborhoods such as Cambria City, Minersville, and Old Conemaugh were created strictly for blue-collar workers.

Moxham was built in a relatively flood-free area, though apparently more by luck than by planning, and experienced much of its growth after the 1889 Johnstown Flood.