{"nrhp_refnum":"78000260","name":"Turn Store and the Tinsmith's Shop","other_names":["Turn's Bushkill General Store"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"U.S. 209","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bushkill","county":"Pike County","state":"PA","lat":41.092294226000035,"lon":-75.00259458799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-09-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A pair of adjacent frame commercial buildings on U.S. 209 in the center of Bushkill, Pike County, Pennsylvania: the Turn General Store and the Tinsmith's Shop. The store was built in two sections, the earlier ca. 1837 and the front addition ca. 1916, and the Tinsmith's Shop is a two-story frame building dating from ca. 1837.","why_significant":"The complex is argued to illustrate Bushkill's growth as a commercial center serving the local agricultural economy in the 19th century and its transition in the 20th century into a service center for the resort and vacation trade. The Tinsmith's Shop is described as one of the best detailed and best preserved Greek Revival buildings in the area, and the store's enlargement is seen as symbolizing the village's changing role.","narrative":"Two frame commercial buildings on U.S. 209 in the center of Bushkill, Pike County, Pennsylvania, record the village's commercial history from the 1830s onward. The Turn General Store was built in two sections, the earlier ca. 1837 and the front addition ca. 1916, when the older wing was moved to the rear and the building was roughly doubled in size. Henry Peters was the first proprietor, and the store passed through a succession of owners and partnerships over the next century. Beside it stands the Tinsmith's Shop, a two-story frame building of about the same date with a slate roof, a central brick chimney, and Greek Revival corner pilasters on its second-story overhang. Little is documented about its original tinsmith. The Tinsmith's Shop is regarded as one of the best detailed and best preserved Greek Revival buildings in this part of Pennsylvania. Together the buildings show the shift from serving local farmers to serving summer visitors, a change tied to the nearby Poconos and to the highway built along the old River Road.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The Tinsmith's Shop is described as uninhabited and serving as an annex for the store; the store is in use with essentially the same function today.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.187642-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78000260.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000260/92eba0d096-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000260/92eba0d096-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TURN_STORE_AND_TINSMITH_SHOP,_PIKE_COUNTY,_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:TURN_STORE_AND_TINSMITH_SHOP,_PIKE_COUNTY,_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994845","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_Store_and_the_Tinsmith%27s_Shop","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7855718"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/pike-county/turn-store-and-the-tinsmiths-shop-78000260/"}