{"nrhp_refnum":"85000461","name":"Springdale Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Mechanic St., Old York, S. Sugan, and Stoney Hill Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Hope","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.366817845500066,"lon":-74.95830452775581,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-03-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district of 29 properties in the rural industrial settlement west of New Hope Borough along Old York Road, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, built around a grist mill, a cotton mill later converted to silk, and workers' housing. The core buildings date from the late 18th to late 19th centuries.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is an example of a rural industrial community that shaped New Hope's development, with its owners' mansion and workers' housing forming a collection of structures from small vernacular dwellings to a Federal-era mansion enlarged with a Samuel Sloan addition. It is also tied to William Maris, who built the cotton mill and helped create the industrial development.","narrative":"Set along Old York Road and Ingham Creek on the western edge of New Hope Borough, this district grew from a late 18th-century grist mill complex into a small rural industrial settlement. William Maris built a stone cotton mill there in 1820, and it was later converted to silk production in the late 19th century. Most of the roughly 29 properties are simple workers' houses of stone, stucco or frame built between about 1820 and 1880. The Huffnagle-Hood Mansion incorporates the Robert Heath House, and in 1856 Charles Huffnagle added a ballroom and library designed by Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan. The Conrad Hartman Store, dating to about 1820, and the Magill House, built about 1790 in the Federal style, are among the older survivors. The district's layout reflects a reversal of the usual pattern, with owners' houses nearest the mills. It is valued as a well-preserved example of a mid-19th-century rural industrial village.","period_of_significance":"1755-1880","architect_builder":"Samuel Sloan (architect, for the 1856 Huffnagle addition); William Maris (mill and mansion owner and developer)","architectural_style":"Federal; Italianate influenced; vernacular","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Ruins of the grist mill and cotton-silk mill survive; the district is now totally residential.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.772198-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/85000461.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000461/ac88179e5e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000461/ac88179e5e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hartman_House_Springdale_HD,_PA.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:Hartman_House_Springdale_HD,_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992438","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springdale_Historic_District_(New_Hope,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7580847"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/springdale-historic-district-85000461/"}