{"nrhp_refnum":"11000342","name":"Montrose Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Wyalusing, Owego, Spruce & Chenango Sts., Lake Ave., High & Turrell Sts., Grow Ave., Jessup St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Montrose","county":"Susquehanna County","state":"PA","lat":41.83373538250004,"lon":-75.88205454420273,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-06-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Historic district centered on the Susquehanna County Courthouse square in the borough of Montrose, Susquehanna County, northeastern Pennsylvania, containing commercial blocks, residences, churches and civic buildings. It includes 384 contributing buildings and two contributing sites, including Montrose Cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is locally significant for architecture, with a concentration of Greek Revival, Italianate, Italian Villa, Gothic Revival and Queen Anne buildings, several designed or built by named local builders and architects. It also notes its courthouse, commercial streetscapes rebuilt after 19th-century fires, and associations with early settler and legal families.","narrative":"Montrose, the county seat of Susquehanna County, grew around a courthouse square on a hill in the early nineteenth century, after the town was laid out in 1812 and named county seat in 1811. Its streets form a partial grid, with Public Avenue sloping down from the courthouse to a commercial core of two- and three-story brick buildings. Greek Revival, Italianate, Italian Villa, Gothic Revival and Queen Anne houses and churches line the residential streets. The courthouse, built in 1854-55, was the work of local builder Avery Frink. William Hamilton Boyd, a local builder, erected churches, the academy and many dwellings from about 1840. Commercial blocks were rebuilt after fires in 1886 and 1888. The district is locally important for its unusually complete collection of mid- to late-nineteenth-century architecture and for its surviving streetscapes.","period_of_significance":"c.1812 to c.1935","architect_builder":"Frink, Avery; Upjohn, Richard; Cope & Stewardson; Boyd, William Hamilton","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italianate, Italian Villa, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne","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 17:10:27.000496-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/11000342.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000342/c1316d060b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000342/c1316d060b-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:Montrose_Fire_Department_Montrose_Historic_District_Aug_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:Montrose_Fire_Department_Montrose_Historic_District_Aug_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996604","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montrose_Historic_District_(Montrose,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6906481"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/susquehanna-county/montrose-historic-district-11000342/"}