{"nrhp_refnum":"77001205","name":"Wellsville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"PA 74","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wellsville","county":"York County","state":"PA","lat":40.051057758500036,"lon":-76.93953748603367,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-12-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 50 dwellings and related buildings along Main Street and York Street (State Route 74) in the village of Wellsville, northern York County, Pennsylvania. The village is built largely in the 19th century and was tied to a whip factory from about 1843.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the village is significant as an intact 19th-century village scene rather than for a single building or event. Its houses share similar scale, materials and streetscape, and its leather-related industries (whip, tannery, fly net and baby shoe firms) remain visible in surviving buildings. The district is described as having been left largely unchanged after industrial decline following World War I.","narrative":"Wellsville is a village of roughly 50 dwellings and related buildings along Main and York Streets in northern York County, Pennsylvania, with most houses dating from the later 19th century. Village growth began around 1843, when Abram Wells moved a whip manufacturing company from York to the family farm, and a tannery, fly net factory and baby shoe firm followed. Surviving buildings include a Methodist church dated 1852, a Queen Anne school built in 1903 with a fieldstone foundation, a sandstone bank from 1928, and Willowdale, a cut sandstone mansion of 1869. The village is regarded as a largely unaltered example of a 19th-century industrial village whose streetscape of similar-sized houses, brick sidewalks and tree-lined streets has survived after the local manufacturing declined.","period_of_significance":"1843-now","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic, Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Stick style, Eastlake, Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"The excellent physical condition of the village is attributed to continued maintenance rather than recent restoration; the district contains some 20th-century intrusions.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.591938-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/77001205.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001205/948d694585-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001205/948d694585-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:299_Main_St_Wellsville_YorkCo_PA.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:299_Main_St_Wellsville_YorkCo_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998620","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110816206"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/york-county/wellsville-historic-district-77001205/"}