{"nrhp_refnum":"83002261","name":"Cold Point Historic District","other_names":["0425732869"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"I-276, Butler Pike, Militia Hill and Narcissa Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Norristown","county":"Montgomery County","state":"PA","lat":40.116684125000035,"lon":-75.2665231477734,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural village and surrounding farmland district in Plymouth and Whitemarsh Townships, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, extending east from the Plymouth Meeting Historic District along Butler Pike, Narcissa Road, Flourtown Road and Militia Hill Road. Its core is the Village of Cold Point, a lime-burning community of 2½-story stone houses, many built in the 19th century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district preserves the character of a nineteenth-century rural and early industrial community, centred on the lime industry and the Corson family's lime business. It also cites the Cold Point Baptist Church, the Cold Point School, the early ownership of property by free black men, and the 1778 British march past Cold Point Hill during the Revolutionary War.","narrative":"Cold Point is a rural village and farming district in Plymouth and Whitemarsh Townships, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, lying east of the Plymouth Meeting area along Butler Pike. Its houses are mainly two-and-a-half-story rubble stone dwellings, stuccoed, with gabled roofs, many built between about 1745 and 1878. Limestone deposits supported lime burning from the early 1700s, and by the 1840s the Corson family had built a lime business that became one of the oldest continuously operated lime companies in the country. The village also holds the Cold Point Baptist Church, its burial ground on Cold Point Hill, and the Cold Point School, built in 1817 on land given by Thomas Egbert. Free black landowners lived in the village, and the district is important for its surviving 19th-century fabric and rural character. On May 20, 1778, a British force under General Grant marched past Cold Point Hill during the Revolutionary War.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Approximately 91% of the houses shown on Scott's 1877 Atlas are still standing, according to the document.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.773657-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/83002261.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002261/a2f35017e6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002261/a2f35017e6-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cold_Point_Baptist_Montco_PA_HD.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:Cold_Point_Baptist_Montco_PA_HD.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996792","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Point_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5142314"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montgomery-county/cold-point-historic-district-83002261/"}