{"nrhp_refnum":"08000518","name":"Langhorne Manor School","other_names":["Langhorne Manor Borough Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"618 Hulmeville Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Langhorne Manor","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.16652837100003,"lon":-74.92036658099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-06-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-room school building, now used as Langhorne Manor Borough Hall, at 618 Hulmeville Road in Langhorne Manor Borough, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was constructed in 1891.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a locally significant example of Queen Anne architecture used for a one-room schoolhouse, a combination it describes as unusual because most one-room schools in the area are Colonial or Greek Revival. It notes that the building retains a good deal of its historic integrity despite conversion to a borough hall, unlike comparable local schools converted to residences.","narrative":"Built in 1891 in Langhorne Manor Borough, the school is a small, rectangular, one-room building of stone walls and light wood framing under a hipped slate roof. Its Queen Anne character shows in the two eyelid dormers with Palladian-style windows, the gable dormer with fish scale shingles, and a brick chimney. The walls are coursed micaceous quartzite stone, which the nomination says was quarried locally. The building was constructed for the Langhorne Manor Borough school board on land sold in June 1891 by the Langhorne Improvement Company, a firm that developed the railroad-served suburb. The school operated as a school until the late 1940s and was sold to the borough in 1959 and converted to borough hall. Its listing rests on its architecture: the nomination treats it as a rare surviving example of Queen Anne design in a one-room school, and it retains much of its original exterior and interior trim.","period_of_significance":"1891","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian / Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as Langhorne Manor Borough Hall, with public meeting space and offices for the borough police department on the ground floor.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:26.986947-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/08000518.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000518/6571fdeda8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000518/6571fdeda8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langhorne_Manor_School_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:Langhorne_Manor_School_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992432","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langhorne_Manor_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6486108"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/langhorne-manor-school-08000518/"}