{"nrhp_refnum":"01000059","name":"Tamaqua Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Rowe & Mauch Sts., East End Ave., Mountain Ave., and West Cottage Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tamaqua","county":"Schuylkill County","state":"PA","lat":40.799947606000046,"lon":-75.95683866975442,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-02-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district centered on the Five Points intersection of Broad and Center Streets in the Borough of Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, covering 178.6 acres of the central business district and surrounding neighborhoods. It contains 976 buildings, 3 sites, 8 structures and 3 objects, of which 96.8 percent are contributing.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant for its role in the southern anthracite coal industry and for commerce and rail transport, under Criterion A, and for its collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century residential, commercial and industrial architecture, under Criterion C. It notes the borough grew from the 1831 Little Schuylkill Railroad into a mining and manufacturing center second only to Pottsville in the southern field.","narrative":"Tamaqua is a borough of tightly arranged buildings on narrow lots, centered on the Five Points intersection where Broad Street meets the railroad. Its built fabric dates mostly from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century, with a large number of buildings constructed between 1900 and 1925. The district holds commercial blocks of three and four stories, frame and brick residences, row houses, iron steps linking hillside neighborhoods to downtown, and five bridges. Its development followed the 1831 Little Schuylkill Railroad, which opened the eastern end of the southern anthracite field to the Philadelphia market. The borough became a center of mining, rail transport and manufacturing, with powder works and a major colliery. The nomination regards the district as an intact collection of nineteenth century residential, industrial and commercial architecture, in both vernacular and high style forms.","period_of_significance":"c. 1801-1950","architect_builder":"Schlegel, James (architect); Weaver, Edward E. (builder); Becker & Schilbe Co. (builders)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Second Empire, Stick/Eastlake, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Classical Revival, Romanesque, Italianate, Tudor Revival, Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival, Federal, Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.83993-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/01000059.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000059/de9fecfed7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000059/de9fecfed7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Publichall","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamaqua,_PA_-_Downtown.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Publichall</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamaqua,_PA_-_Downtown.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994728","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamaqua_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7680716"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/schuylkill-county/tamaqua-historic-district-01000059/"}