{"nrhp_refnum":"75001635","name":"Titusville City Hall","other_names":["Bush House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"107 N. Franklin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Titusville","county":"Crawford County","state":"PA","lat":41.62746464600008,"lon":-79.67376767699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-03-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Titusville City Hall is a frame Greek Revival temple-form house in Titusville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, originally built as a private residence around 1865 and later used as the city hall.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a fine example of the Greek Revival temple-form house and is unique to the area in its architecture. It also cites its use as a social center in the oil region as a hotel, and its service as the city hall for over 100 years.","narrative":"Built around 1865 as a private residence, this frame house in Titusville is two and one-half stories tall and five bays wide, with a low-pitched gable roof. Its main feature is a three-bay portico of four Ionic columns supporting an entablature and pediment, with a balcony beneath the portico between the first and second floors. Two rear wings were probably added between 1865 and 1872. Soon after construction it was sold and operated as a hotel known as the Bush House, which served as a social center in the oil region of northwestern Pennsylvania. In 1872 the city acquired the building for its governing authorities and remodeled it as City Hall, a use it has continued for over a century. The house is regarded as unique in the area for its Greek Revival temple form.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival temple form house","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Unaltered, original site; in use as city hall for over 100 years","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.500059-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/75001635.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001635/99afd49406-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001635/99afd49406-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Niagara","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Titusville_City_Hall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Niagara</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Titusville_City_Hall.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"85000178","name":"Titusville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/titusville-historic-district-85000178/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998354","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titusville_City_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7810350"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/crawford-county/titusville-city-hall-75001635/"}