{"nrhp_refnum":"85000178","name":"Titusville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Petroleum, Spruce, Franklin, Perry, Monroe, Main and Spring Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Titusville","county":"Crawford County","state":"PA","lat":41.63118314950003,"lon":-79.67605562651373,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-01-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Titusville Historic District is a district of about 170 acres in northcentral Titusville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, containing 503 structures, of which 472 are contributing. It is a compact record of the town's built environment from the beginning of the oil industry through the turn of the twentieth century.","why_significant":"The district is significant as the core of Titusville's commercial, cultural and major residential buildings, reflecting the town's development as a lumber center and then as a regional industrial and commercial center during the oil boom that followed Drake's 1859 well. The nomination notes that its buildings display a wide range of American architectural styles from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and that it remains largely unaltered.","narrative":"Titusville's historic district covers about 170 acres of level, grid-planned ground in the northcentral part of the city, and holds 503 structures, 472 of them contributing. Its growth follows the oil industry that began after Edwin L. Drake's successful well in August 1859. Before that, the town was a lumber center on Oil Creek, and a few pre-1859 buildings survive, including the William Barnsdall House, built about 1855 in a vernacular version of Greek Revival. Frame houses dominated the first boom years, and by the mid-1860s brick commercial buildings, the first brick church and the first brick residence had appeared. Downtown blocks are mostly Italianate, with later commercial work in Neo-Classical, Beaux Arts and Second Empire forms. Residential streets hold single-family houses on lots of about 9,225 square feet, many shaded by large maples. The district is significant as the surviving core of the town's commercial, cultural and residential buildings from the boom years and the early 1900s.","period_of_significance":"1859-1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate, Greek Revival, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Richardsonian Romanesque and other late Victorian and early twentieth-century styles","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The district is described as primarily unaltered, with 31 intrusive structures.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.970282-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/85000178.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000178/3cfe37bb5c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000178/3cfe37bb5c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Titusville,_Pennsylvania_(8483328693).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Titusville,_Pennsylvania_(8483328693).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998356","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titusville_Historic_District_(Titusville,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7810354"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/crawford-county/titusville-historic-district-85000178/"}