{"nrhp_refnum":"04000759","name":"Lewisburg Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by US 15, Beck St., Susquehanna River and Borough boundary","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lewisburg","county":"Union County","state":"PA","lat":40.96450453050005,"lon":-76.8840545130849,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Education","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Lewisburg Historic District is a district of about 868 contributing and 62 non-contributing resources in the borough of Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania, on the west bank of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. It centres on Market Street and the residential streets around it, with part of the Bucknell University campus at its southern end.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant under Criterion A for commerce, education and politics/government, reflecting Lewisburg's role as a regional trade centre, college town and county seat. It is also significant under Criterion C for architecture, as an intact townscape showing a broad range of vernacular and high-style building traditions, especially Greek Revival and Italianate work from the mid-nineteenth century.","narrative":"Lewisburg's historic district occupies level ground on the west bank of the West Branch of the Susquehanna, laid out on a regular grid around Market Street. Settlement began circa 1773, when miller Ludwig Derr established a grain mill, and the town was platted in 1785 with 350 lots. Its built fabric is mostly vernacular houses from the nineteenth century, many of them decorated with Greek Revival, Italianate or Queen Anne details. The district contains 743 primary buildings dating from circa 1773 to 1953, of which 398 date from circa 1825 to 1870, the main period of rebuilding. Commercial blocks on Market Street, the Union County Courthouse of 1856, and seventeen Bucknell University buildings from 1848 onward add public and institutional character. Lewisburg's role as a regional trading centre, its college and its county seat give the district its significance in commerce, education and government.","period_of_significance":"C. 1773-1953","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate, Greek Revival, Queen Anne; also Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Federal, Gothic Revival, Romanesque Revival, Shingle Style, Victorian Gothic, Beaux Arts, Neoclassical, Art Deco and Tudor Revival examples","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 17:11:37.29994-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/04000759.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000759/21be7b8fb2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000759/21be7b8fb2-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Campus_Theater_Lewisburg_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Campus_Theater_Lewisburg_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996242","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewisburg_Historic_District_(Lewisburg,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6537285"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/union-county/lewisburg-historic-district-04000759/"}