{"nrhp_refnum":"75001653","name":"Jersey Shore Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Irregular shape roughly bounded by Lawshe Run, W. Branch Susquehanna River, S borough bundaries, and Tomb Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jersey Shore","county":"Lycoming County","state":"PA","lat":41.20107343850006,"lon":-77.2547146931145,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-03-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Jersey Shore Historic District is a 336-building residential and commercial district in the borough of Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, centred on North and South Main Street on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. Its buildings date mainly from the 1830s to 1860s.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its concentration of Federal, Greek Revival and other 19th-century Victorian-era houses and public buildings, many associated with merchants and industrialists who lived in the town. The statement of significance says the architecture forms a cohesive district that retains much of the character of a mid-19th-century town.","narrative":"Jersey Shore is a borough on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, and its historic district contains 336 buildings, roughly sixty of them of major architectural importance. Most were built between about 1830 and 1860, and many show Federal or Greek Revival design, with others displaying Georgian, Italianate, Gothic Revival and French Second Empire features. The town grew as a depot for the lumber regions of Pine and Larry's Creeks after the West Branch Canal passed through in 1834, and many of its houses were built for merchants and industrialists. Notable examples include the Slonaker House, a Greek temple form house with a portico of fluted Ionic columns, and the Gamble House, originally Italianate and later remodeled with Beaux-Arts Classical features. The district is valued as a cohesive example of a mid-nineteenth-century town, despite a number of later commercial intrusions.","period_of_significance":"1830-1860","architect_builder":"Alexander Smith (Hume Building); John Knox (Moran-Trump House); Henry Hipple (John A. Gamble House)","architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Georgian, Italianate, Gothic Revival, French Second Empire","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restoration activities by individual owners are underway; several intrusions are present, including commercial buildings.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:28.894209-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/75001653.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001653/0397d843d5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001653/0397d843d5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dincher","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jersey_Shore_old_houses.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Dincher</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:Jersey_Shore_old_houses.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995966","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6184936"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lycoming-county/jersey-shore-historic-district-75001653/"}