{"nrhp_refnum":"85000177","name":"Wycombe Village Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Township Line, Mill Creek and Forest Grove Rds., Cherry Lane, Washington and Park Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Buckingham and Wrightstown Townships","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.28443335150007,"lon":-75.01711603673684,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-01-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Wycombe Village Historic District is a predominantly late nineteenth and early twentieth century village straddling Mill Creek on the boundary of Buckingham and Wrightstown Townships in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It contains about sixty-two major buildings and three additional structures on roughly sixty-three acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the village developed as a direct result of the railroad and trolley boom of the 1890s and early 1900s, and has retained its sense of time and place with little intrusion. It also cites the village's transitional architecture and the work of Doylestown architect Oscar Martin as reasons for significance.","narrative":"Wycombe is a village of about sixty-two major buildings on roughly sixty-three acres beside Mill Creek, on the Buckingham and Wrightstown Township line in Bucks County. Most of its buildings were erected between 1891 and 1915, after the Northeast Pennsylvania Railroad opened a station called Walton Station in 1891 and a Newtown to Doylestown trolley line crossed the creek nearby. The railroad transformed a mill hamlet founded around a grist mill dating to 1743 into a service village with shops, a hotel, a coal and lumber yard, a town hall and a feed mill completed in 1927. Its homes are mostly two-and-one-half story frame houses on wooded lots, blending Queen Anne and Victorian Gothic forms with emerging Foursquare and Colonial Revival details. Oscar Martin, a Doylestown architect, designed several notable buildings, including the stone-arch bridge, the Wycombe Schoolhouse and brick houses for local clients. The village is regarded as one of the most intact turn-of-the-century railroad villages in the county.","period_of_significance":"1891-1915","architect_builder":"Oscar O. Martin (architect) for several structures, including the Wycombe School House, Edward R. Kirk House and Albert S. Worthington House","architectural_style":"Vernacular Queen Anne and Bungalow, with Colonial Revival, Victorian Gothic and American Foursquare influences","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Overall integrity described as very high; most structures retain original character despite some alterations.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.648044-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/85000177.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000177/ed816760e5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000177/ed816760e5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wycombe_Village_HD_Post_Office.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Shuvaev</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:Wycombe_Village_HD_Post_Office.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994825","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wycombe_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8039651"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/wycombe-village-historic-district-85000177/"}