{"nrhp_refnum":"02000224","name":"Buckmanville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Street Rd. bet. Windy Bush and Buckmanville Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Upper Makefield","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.31544770100007,"lon":-74.97636644787488,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-03-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural village historic district of 13 contributing and three non-contributing resources along a stretch of Street Road in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The buildings are mainly small frame houses and outbuildings with two adjoining stone farmsteads, built between about 1820 and 1875.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is a visually distinct collection of vernacular buildings in the Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival and Italianate styles, typical of the region between the 1820s and 1870s. It also ties the village's development to George Buckman's plow manufactory and to Barclay J. Smith, who owned most village lots and built many of the buildings.","narrative":"Buckmanville is a small village of frame houses, stone farmhouses and outbuildings along the west side of Street Road in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County. Most of its buildings date from about 1820 to 1875 and stand close to the road on narrow village lots with uniform setbacks. William H. Ellis began selling village lots in the 1840s, and George Buckman established a plow manufactory here in the 1840s, producing plows designed by Benjamin Wiggins. Barclay J. Smith later acquired most of the village lots, ran a general store that housed the post office, and built many of the surviving houses, including a double house dated to about 1863. The buildings show vernacular Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival and Italianate features, such as eyebrow windows, paired doors and bracketed cornices. The district is regarded as a cohesive example of a mid-nineteenth-century rural hamlet. Its architecture and layout are the reasons for its listing.","period_of_significance":"1820-1875","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Greek Revival; Gothic Revival; Italianate (vernacular examples)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Village is now residential; the general store and post office burned between 1924 and 1931, and one primary building is gone.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:38.136021-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/02000224.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000224/772e548cb9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000224/772e548cb9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buckmanville_HD_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Shuvaev</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:Buckmanville_HD_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998448","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckmanville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4983406"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/buckmanville-historic-district-02000224/"}