{"nrhp_refnum":"100012044","name":"Hamorton Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of US 1 and SR 52","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kennett Square","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":null,"lon":null,"geom_source":null},"listed_date":"2025-07-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Hamorton Historic District is a village of brick, frame and stone residences at the intersection of Old Baltimore Pike (Route 1) and the Wilmington Road (Route 52) in Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, built between about 1780 and 1930. It consists of an older village laid out in the 1830s and a planned group of company houses added by P.S. DuPont in 1928-1930.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the village preserves the layout and buildings of a 19th-century commercial crossroads that rivaled Kennett Square, and that it was a center of abolitionist activity in Chester County. It also argues the 1928-1930 DuPont houses are of exceptional integrity and reflect Georgian and Colonial Revival design by the Wilmington architect E. William Martin.","narrative":"Hamorton is a village of brick, frame and stone houses at the crossing of Baltimore Pike and the Wilmington Road in Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Its older section was laid out in the 1830s on narrow rectangular lots subdivided from the Ezekiel Webb estate, with Abraham Hamor building most of the early dwellings. The village grew into a commercial center, with a general store run by the Pyle family and a post office established in 1831, and it rivaled Kennett Square until the railroad bypassed it. In 1928-1930 P.S. DuPont of Longwood Gardens added a planned section to the north, with eighteen detached Colonial and Georgian Revival houses designed by E. William Martin. The village is also tied to abolitionism, with Dr. Bartholomew Fussell's hall and Sarah Harvey Pearson's free store opposing slavery in the 1840s and 1850s. The historic district holds 52 contributing principal buildings, and the village keeps much of its original layout.","period_of_significance":"1780-1930","architect_builder":"E. (Edward) William Martin (architect) for the 1928-1930 DuPont houses; P.S. DuPont (owner and developer of new Hamorton)","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival; Colonial Revival; Georgian Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Contributing buildings include 52 principal buildings, a water tower and 23 accessory buildings; two principal buildings and eight garages are non-contributing; two lots are noted as vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.404134-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90000704.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996022","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/hamorton-historic-district-boundary-increase-100012044/"}