{"nrhp_refnum":"10000397","name":"Newville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Cove Alley, Big Spring Creek, the Cumberland Valley Railroad right-of-way, Washington St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"PA","lat":40.169577068500075,"lon":-77.39929905137515,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-06-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district covering the contiguous core of Newville Borough in northwestern Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, containing 529 resources, mostly houses, plus churches, schools, commercial buildings and a cemetery. The district was laid out from a village plat created by the trustees of Big Spring Presbyterian Church.","why_significant":"The district is regarded as an important example of a small rural village in Cumberland County, with a concentration of buildings from the Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Second Empire and Colonial Revival styles. Its architecture reflects the borough's development from agrarian beginnings in the late 18th century through its greatest growth in the 19th century and into the first half of the 20th century.","narrative":"Newville is a small borough on the western bank of Big Spring Creek, about 12 miles west of Carlisle, where a village plat was laid out around Big Spring Presbyterian Church in the late 18th century. The district's 529 resources include 414 contributing buildings, mostly 19th-century houses, along with seven churches, two former schoolhouses, three social halls, two former fire stations and 17 commercial buildings. Its earliest surviving houses are log dwellings from about 1795 to 1798, though all have been altered. Stone houses of the 1820s to 1830s, such as the five-bay Georgian house at 51 East Main Street built around 1830 with quoins and flat arches, show the town's growth. The Cumberland Valley Railroad, built in 1837, shaped later development, and Newville grew into a regional center for commerce, education and religion. The district is significant for the range and survival of its architecture from the 1790s through about 1950.","period_of_significance":"1790-c. 1950","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate, Gothic Revival, Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Second Empire, Colonial Revival, Federal, Georgian, Craftsman Bungalow, American Foursquare","criteria":["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 17:10:27.519579-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/10000397.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000397/074e96c70c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000397/074e96c70c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NEWVILLE_HISTORIC_DISTRICT.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NEWVILLE_HISTORIC_DISTRICT.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996779","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15262218"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/cumberland-county/newville-historic-district-10000397/"}