{"nrhp_refnum":"02000951","name":"Milford Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly encompassing the gridded portion of Milford","address_restricted":false,"city":"Milford","county":"Pike County","state":"PA","lat":41.32525666850006,"lon":-74.80501019485234,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-09-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A primarily residential historic district of about 240 acres in the Borough of Milford, the county seat of Pike County, Pennsylvania, on the west shore of the Delaware River. It surrounds the earlier Milford Historic District and the Jervis Gordon Grist Mill Historic District and includes parts of Dingman and Milford Townships.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant under Criterion A for commerce, entertainment/recreation and the early film industry, tied to Milford's role as a Pocono resort community and to films shot there from 1912 to 1928. Under Criterion C it is argued to be a cohesive concentration of 19th- and early 20th-century domestic, institutional and resort architecture, including work by local builders.","narrative":"Milford, on the west bank of the Delaware River in northeastern Pennsylvania, was laid out in 1793 on a grid of large blocks by the judge John Biddis, and its residential streets still follow that plan. Most of the district's roughly 450 resources are two- to three-story wood buildings on stone foundations, with a considerable number of brick houses and native cobblestone walls. Mid-19th-century resort hotels and summer homes drew New York and Philadelphia visitors, and in 1912 D. W. Griffith filmed scenes in the town with his Biograph players. The Milford Theater on East Catharine Street premiered a 1928 film produced there. Local builders the Snyder family used cobblestone and bluestone, and Alfred Marvin designed the Milford High School. The district's mix of Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate and later styles is presented as its main architectural distinction.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1765-ca. 1951","architect_builder":"Brown, A. D., builder; Marvin, Alfred, architect; Penn Bridge Company, builder; Snyder, Joseph G. and Andrew C., builders; VanAuken, S. T., builder","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Romanesque Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Neo-Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Mediterranean Revival, Bungalow, American Foursquare","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 17:11:35.918238-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/02000951.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996545","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/pike-county/milford-historic-district-boundary-increase-02000951/"}