{"nrhp_refnum":"79002300","name":"Bryn Mawr Hotel","other_names":["Baldwin School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Morris and Montgomery Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bryn Mawr","county":"Montgomery County","state":"PA","lat":40.02304983700003,"lon":-75.31252062599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-04-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former summer resort hotel in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, now the main building of the Baldwin School. The replacement hotel was designed by Furness, Evans and Company for the Bryn Mawr Hotel Company of the Pennsylvania Railroad and opened in the summer of 1890.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is the only hotel by Frank Furness that survives, and a fine example of his inventive, personal design. It is also presented as a notable example of the chateau style used in American hotels of the 1880s, and of a building whose original fabric survived its change of use to a school in 1896 with little alteration.","narrative":"Built in 1890 as a summer resort hotel in Bryn Mawr, this five-story building of rough cut granite with brick trim was designed by Furness, Evans and Company, with Frank Furness credited as architect. It replaced an earlier Pennsylvania Railroad hotel of about 1871 that burned in the winter of 1889-90. Its steeply pitched roof, conical-capped entrance tower, and wide wooden porches give it a picturesque massing in an interpretation of sixteenth-century French chateau architecture. The building was leased to the Baldwin School in 1896 and has housed classrooms, dining rooms, offices and residences since then. The nomination places its significance in Furness's inventive handling of materials and form, and in the fact that the hotel was designed with enough flexibility to take on a school use, and later further changes in 1976, without losing its original fabric. Its grand steel stairway, fireplaces and double-loaded corridors remain part of its character.","period_of_significance":"1890","architect_builder":"Furness, Evans and Company; Frank Furness, Architect","architectural_style":"Interpretation of the French Chateau style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"In use as the Baldwin School's main building; the form states it is in good condition and was adapted again in 1976.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.340542-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002300.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002300/be7a6861e1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002300/be7a6861e1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Bmzuckerman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Furness_-_Bryn_Mawr,_PA_-_Bryn_Mawr_Hotel_(1).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bmzuckerman</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Furness_-_Bryn_Mawr,_PA_-_Bryn_Mawr_Hotel_(1).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994817","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baldwin_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4850596"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montgomery-county/bryn-mawr-hotel-79002300/"}