{"nrhp_refnum":"84003165","name":"Lumberville Historic District","other_names":["Lumberville"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Fleecy Dale, Carversville, River, and Green Hill Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lumberville","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.40483846850006,"lon":-75.03277272035805,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-08-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Transportation","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 96 buildings and 3 structures along River Road (SR 32) and the Delaware Canal in the village of Lumberville, Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Its buildings date mainly from the 1700s through the 1800s, with a few from the early twentieth century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Lumberville is a typical one-industry mill village of the 19th century that shows the influence of the Industrial Revolution, with lumber milling and canal shipping of lumber, coal and limestone sustaining its commercial life. It also cites the village's retained integrity and its association with the luminist painter Martin Johnson Heade and a group of early twentieth-century artists and writers who lived there.","narrative":"Lumberville is a village of about 96 buildings and 3 structures strung along River Road and the Delaware Canal in Solebury Township, Bucks County. Most of its houses are stone or frame, and many of the oldest stand at the south end of the village near the Black Bass Hotel, an inn whose records go back to the 1700s and which once served bargemen. Its commercial life centered on lumber milling, begun by George Wall, Jr. in the late 1700s and later run by Lukens Thomas and the Tinsman family. Rafts of logs came down the Delaware, and coal and limestone moved along the canal, which opened in the 1830s. The village is also tied to the painter Martin Johnson Heade, born here in 1819, and to a group of artists and writers who settled here in the early twentieth century. The district's buildings have kept a high level of integrity, with most changes made to the rear of the houses.","period_of_significance":"1700-1933","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial style and Victorian era buildings","criteria":[],"status_note":"The lumber business continues, and the district retains high integrity, with most alterations made in the rear of buildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.291267-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/84003165.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003165/0a5f316148-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003165/0a5f316148-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Zeete","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Bass_Hotel,_Lumberville,_PA_-_2016.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Zeete</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:Black_Bass_Hotel,_Lumberville,_PA_-_2016.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996349","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumberville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6703123"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/lumberville-historic-district-84003165/"}