{"nrhp_refnum":"83004200","name":"Tomlinson-Huddleston House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"109 W. Maple Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Langhorne","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.176250054000036,"lon":-74.92091900199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-11-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2-1/2 story, three-bay, double-pile stone house in the village of Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, at 109 West Maple Avenue. The first section was constructed in 1783.","why_significant":"The house is significant chiefly for its architecture: its masonry walls carry six names or sets of initials and four datestones carved into the exterior, a number the nomination says no other Bucks County house exhibits. It is also tied to the village's development from the division of the William Huddleston estate and to the early wheelwright and coachmaking shops on the site, where Edward Hicks began his apprenticeship.","narrative":"Built in 1783 by the mason Isaac Watson for Richard and Hannah Tomlinson, this two-and-a-half-story stone house stands in the center of Langhorne village, with three bays across its south face and a gable roof with an interior end chimney. Its distinguishing feature is the group of carved initial, name and date stones on the south, east and north walls of the original section. Three appear on the front facade, including the owners' and builder's names, and the others record neighbors Joshua Richardson, William Paxson, Isaac Thackery and Isaac Hicks, prominent men of the community. Few Bucks County houses of this period show so many non-owner names carved at one time, which is why the house is read as a record of the village's founders. The property also held a wheelwright's shop later run as a coachmaking business by William Tomlinson, where Edward Hicks, later regarded as one of America's foremost primitive painters, began his apprenticeship. Alterations include nineteenth-century rear additions and a 1940s restoration of the front.","period_of_significance":"1783","architect_builder":"Isaac Watson (builder)","architectural_style":"2/3 Georgian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Altered: rear frame additions dating from circa 1820 and circa 1965, exterior plaster removed and sash replaced in the 1940s restoration, interior stairway and fireplaces altered.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.967747-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/83004200.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004200/ddc95ed764-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004200/ddc95ed764-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Hshuvaeva","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tomlinson-Huddleston_House_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Hshuvaeva</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tomlinson-Huddleston_House_01.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"87001993","name":"Langhorne Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/langhorne-historic-district-87001993/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996159","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomlinson-Huddleston_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7819020"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/tomlinson-huddleston-house-83004200/"}