{"nrhp_refnum":"76001639","name":"Monterey Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Off PA 16","address_restricted":false,"city":"Blue Ridge Summit","county":"Franklin County","state":"PA","lat":39.736205375000054,"lon":-77.46897675134983,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-04-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 250 acres in Blue Ridge Summit, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, made up of 19th-century summer houses, inns, a church, a library, a club and a golf course. It includes roughly 60 historically significant structures.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is a fine example of a 19th-century summer resort community that retains the character of the Victorian era. Its planned layout by the Monterey Land Company, its links to the Monterey Inn and the Western Maryland Railroad's resort trade, and its varied architecture from the 1880s to about 1906 are cited as the basis for significance.","narrative":"Blue Ridge Summit's Monterey district is a cluster of late nineteenth-century summer houses, inns, a church, a library, a club and a golf course laid out along Charmian Road, Charmian Lane, Clermont Avenue and Monterey Circle. The area grew from an inn or way station at the junction of Charmian Road and Monterey Lane, which dates to 1810 and sat on the old Baltimore-Pittsburgh turnpike. After the Monterey Land Company bought the Monterey Springs farm in 1885, it created a planned summer colony with winding lanes, low stone walls, and houses sited for mountain views. Its covenants banned alcohol outside the inn properties and prohibited detached privies, stores, factories and dwellings costing less than $2,000. Houses built between 1890 and 1906 show Queen Anne, Georgian Revival, Shingle and Italianate forms. The district is significant as an intact example of a Victorian resort community, shaped by the railroad excursion trade.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Georgian Revival, Shingle style, Italianate and other styles, described as transitional","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Most of the district is intact; the Monterey Inn burned in 1941, the Clermont was razed, and the Dunbrack Library and Dunbrack Inn are no longer in use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.849446-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/76001639.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001639/bb709be7ee-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001639/bb709be7ee-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monterey_HD_FranCo_PA_house_1.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monterey_HD_FranCo_PA_house_1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994710","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Historic_District_(Blue_Ridge_Summit,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6905319"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/franklin-county/monterey-historic-district-76001639/"}