{"nrhp_refnum":"05000101","name":"Tunkhannock Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Tioga, Pine, Harrison Sts., and Wyoming Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tunkhannock","county":"Wyoming County","state":"PA","lat":41.53967416550006,"lon":-75.9484071892621,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-07-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Tunkhannock Historic District is a district of residential and commercial buildings in the county seat of Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, on the north (east) bank of the North Branch Susquehanna River. It contains 248 resources, of which 225 are contributing.","why_significant":"The district is significant under Criterion A for its role as the commercial center and seat of local government for Wyoming County, tied to the lumber, coal and river trade. It is also significant under Criterion C for its cohesive collection of mid-to-late nineteenth-century buildings, an intact street grid, and the county courthouse.","narrative":"Tunkhannock is a densely built borough and county seat on the north bank of the North Branch Susquehanna River, with most buildings dating from the mid- and late nineteenth century. Its commercial core along Tioga Street holds two- and three-story brick blocks with street-level shops and upper-floor offices, many with round-arched windows and corbelled cornices. The Prince Hotel, erected in 1844, has a simplified Greek Revival front with a centrally placed loggia. The Wyoming County Courthouse, first built in 1843 as a two-story brick building, was redesigned in 1870 by D.R. Nott as a three-story Italianate building with a clock tower. The district grew from river trade in lumber and later anthracite coal, and it served as the county's transshipment point, business center and seat of government. Fires in 1850 and 1870 led to the rebuilding of many blocks in brick.","period_of_significance":"1841-1954","architect_builder":"Nott, D.R.; Barber, George Franklin","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Italianate, Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Most buildings are in use; the commercial core remains largely intact, with scattered vacant lots and infill buildings.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.277763-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/05000101.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000101/cae916a16a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000101/cae916a16a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prince_Hotel_Tunkhannock_Historic_District_May_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prince_Hotel_Tunkhannock_Historic_District_May_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998388","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunkhannock_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7853240"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/wyoming-county/tunkhannock-historic-district-05000101/"}