{"nrhp_refnum":"12000605","name":"Lansford Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Snyder Ave., Cortright, East, & Water Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lansford","county":"Carbon County","state":"PA","lat":40.83384359850007,"lon":-75.88393671178828,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-09-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Lansford Historic District is a coal company town in Lansford Borough, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, in the Panther Valley, covering about 462 acres with a mix of worker housing, managers' houses, commercial blocks and a former mine. Its development ran from the 1870s through the early 20th century, with the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company central to its growth.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is a well-preserved example of an anthracite coal town, shaped by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company's control of the land and its mining operations. It states that the town's housing, streets and churches reflect the company's long dominance and the ethnic working-class community that lived there. The district is significant under Criterion A for Industry on the local level.","narrative":"Lansford is a coal borough in the Panther Valley of Carbon County, Pennsylvania, built largely by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. Its housing is mostly plain, two-story double houses with side-gabled roofs and front porches, many with full basements built into the hillside. Concrete houses on West Bertsch Street and bungalow-type homes near Edgemont Lodge, built by the company for supervisors and managers, add variety. Ridge Street holds a commercial district with mid-century storefronts. The town grew after its 1878 incorporation and reached its peak population of 9,625 by 1920. The district is significant for its association with anthracite mining, from the canal and gravity railroad era through the company's withdrawal from mining in 1954. The No. 9 Mine, now a museum, and the Tunnel No. 7 rail route are key elements of that history.","period_of_significance":"1850-1954","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No Style; Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements; Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"The nomination notes the No. 9 Mine has been converted to a museum, and that the Lansford mines were closed by 1972; it also refers to a now-vacant throwing mill.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.025981-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/12000605.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000605/f6747d13e9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000605/f6747d13e9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Hshuvaeva","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Katharine_Drexel_Parish,_Lansford,_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Hshuvaeva</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:St._Katharine_Drexel_Parish,_Lansford,_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996181","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansford_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6487412"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/carbon-county/lansford-historic-district-12000605/"}