{"nrhp_refnum":"84003589","name":"Goldsboro Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by North, 3rd, Fraser, and Railroad Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Goldsboro","county":"York County","state":"PA","lat":40.154182812000045,"lon":-76.75046466931519,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-06-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Goldsboro Historic District is a planned rail town on the west bank of the Susquehanna River in northern York County, Pennsylvania, laid out on a Philadelphia-type grid plan around a center square. Its building stock dates mainly from 1850 to 1930, and the district covers 23.2 acres.","why_significant":"The district is significant as a well-preserved example of a planned mid-19th-century rail community that grew into a local service and manufacturing center. It is also significant for its architecture, which displays most major mid-19th to early 20th century styles and a high concentration of vernacular Greek Revival motifs. The statement of significance links the district to transportation, community planning, industry and architecture between 1850 and 1930.","narrative":"Goldsboro lies on the west bank of the Susquehanna River and was laid out in 1849 by Dr. Alexander Small, who hired Daniel Ettinger to plan the town during construction of the York and Cumberland Railroad. The town was named for the railroad's civil engineer and was the last town in York County laid out on a Philadelphia-type grid with a center square. When the line opened in 1851, Goldsboro became the only water stop on the route and developed into a shipping point and commercial center for the Fishing Creek Valley. Saw and planing mills became its most important industries. Most of its 2½-story frame houses are small and vernacular, many showing Greek Revival motifs such as frieze windows and sidelights. Commercial buildings on the square include an 1850s-era Italianate hall, a brownstone bank of 1908 and a brownstone Gothic Revival church of 1914. The town's scale and layout have changed little since the early twentieth century, which gives the district the character of a mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century rail town and agricultural service center.","period_of_significance":"1850-1930","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italianate, Mansard, Queen Anne, Richardsonian Romanesque, Gothic Revival and Georgian Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The district includes 86 major buildings, of which 11 are significant, 68 contributing and 7 intrusions; several historic buildings are very nearly intrusive.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.085011-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/84003589.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003589/1d9e69e3be-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003589/1d9e69e3be-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fire_Dept_Goldsboro_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</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:Fire_Dept_Goldsboro_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995689","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsboro_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5580288"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/york-county/goldsboro-historic-district-84003589/"}