{"nrhp_refnum":"73001618","name":"Water Street District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by the Susquehanna River, St. Mary's Alley, Locust Ave., and 6th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lock Haven","county":"Clinton County","state":"PA","lat":41.138142305500054,"lon":-77.44924855455545,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-07-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Lock Haven, Clinton County, Pennsylvania, made up of mid-nineteenth-century residences and commercial buildings tied to the lumber industry. Most of its historic structures remain on their original sites.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district reflects the rise of the lumber industry on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River after the canal and boom works were built. Its surviving homes belonged to the men who ran the mills and lumber trade, and its commercial buildings served that community. Individual houses such as the L.A. Mackey House, James White House and David Carskaddon Homestead are presented as associated with that industry.","narrative":"Lock Haven's Water Street District contains a group of mid-nineteenth-century houses and commercial buildings on the banks of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. The Federal-Tuscan Transitional L.A. Mackey House, built in 1854, is a two-story flemish bond brick dwelling with a bracketed cornice and a recessed entrance with a balustraded balcony. Nearby, the David Carskaddon Homestead of 1858 is a Y-shaped Italian Villa brick and stucco house, and the James White House of 1856 shows Greek Revival and Tuscan detailing. Lumbering began along the river after the canal reached the town in 1834, and by 1883 local mills could cut one hundred million feet of timber a year. The district is important because its houses and shops show who profited from that trade and how the town served them.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":"Henry Hipple (builder of the L.A. Mackey House and David Carskaddon Homestead)","architectural_style":"Federal-Tuscan Transitional; Italian Villa; Greek Revival-Tuscan Transitional; Formal Steamboat Gothic","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Most historic structures remain on original sites and are well preserved.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.714674-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/73001618.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001618/18ead7fbd6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001618/18ead7fbd6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Ruhrfisch","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clinton_County_Pennsylvania_Courthouse.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Ruhrfisch</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:Clinton_County_Pennsylvania_Courthouse.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996300","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Street_District_(Lock_Haven,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7973387"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/clinton-county/water-street-district-73001618/"}