{"nrhp_refnum":"04000839","name":"Slatington Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Ridge Alley, Chesnut St., Railroad St., Kern St., Hill Alley, 5th St. and Dowell","address_restricted":false,"city":"Slatington","county":"Lehigh County","state":"PA","lat":40.74750055900006,"lon":-75.61301797699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-08-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":[],"significance_levels":[],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A mixed-use historic district of about 165 acres in the borough of Slatington, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, centred on the downtown along Main Street and the surrounding residential neighborhoods. It contains 561 resources, of which 508 contribute to its character.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant under Criterion A for its close ties to the Pennsylvania slate industry, which produced roofing slate, blackboards, school slates and mantels through much of the nineteenth century. Under Criterion C it is significant for the range of domestic, commercial and institutional architecture of the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century, including locally distinctive examples of many period styles.","narrative":"Slatington's downtown and surrounding residential streets along Main Street in Lehigh County hold 561 resources, most of them dwellings, churches and commercial blocks built between 1890 and 1930. The earliest surviving building is a stone barn dated 1807 behind the Henry Kuntz House at 370 Main Street. Settlement grew after slate was discovered in the 1840s, and quarries and slate companies shaped the community for more than half a century. Many workers' and owners' homes remain, along with commercial blocks housing slate company offices. The district is listed for its ties to the slate industry and for its concentration of architecture in many period styles, from Greek Revival and Italianate to Queen Anne and Colonial Revival. Many of its Queen Anne turrets retain their original slate roofing, and a number of churches contain religious art glass. Two bridges and most of the commercial core are counted as contributing.","period_of_significance":"1807-1953","architect_builder":"Hoch, O. S. (builder); Steger, J. H. (engineer); Opliners, George T. (engineer)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italianate, Romanesque Revival, Colonial Revival, Neo-Classical Revival, Gothic Revival, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Italian Villa, Tudor Revival, 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 17:10:27.58484-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/04000839.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000839/6fd911a734-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000839/6fd911a734-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_St_751,_Slatington_PA.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:Main_St_751,_Slatington_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998167","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slatington_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7538957"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lehigh-county/slatington-historic-district-04000839/"}