{"nrhp_refnum":"86000464","name":"Northeast Lancaster Township Historic District","other_names":["School Lane Hills","See Also:Wheatland"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Marietta, Race, and Wheatland Aves., and Wilson Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.042530098500066,"lon":-76.33242215939609,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-03-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of early twentieth-century suburban houses in Lancaster Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, located about two miles west of downtown Lancaster City. It contains 216 structures, of which 183 are contributing.","why_significant":"The district is presented as an excellent example of early suburban development, with a concentration of elaborate houses designed and built by prominent Lancaster architects and builders. It illustrates the influence of the streetcar and automobile on suburban growth and includes significant examples of several Revival and other period styles. Its development shifted from unplanned growth to a planned development by School Lane Hills, Inc. in 1926.","narrative":"Northeast Lancaster Township is a residential historic district about two miles west of downtown Lancaster City, containing 216 structures, 183 of them contributing. Settlement began around 1820 with farmhouses such as Wheatland and the Herr House along Marietta Avenue, which served as one of two roads from Lancaster City to western Lancaster County. Suburban building began around the 1880s and 1890s, when a streetcar line along Marietta and North President Avenues brought large houses for well-to-do families. The majority of the houses were built between 1920 and 1939, after School Lane Hills, Inc. began a planned subdivision in 1926. The district holds a wide range of revival-style homes, including Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival and Georgian Revival examples, along with Queen Anne and American Four Square houses. Many were designed by known Lancaster architects, including C. Emlen Urban and James Warner. Its listing rests on the concentration of well-built, largely original suburban houses.","period_of_significance":"1820-1935","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival, Tudor Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, American Four Square, Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"The document describes the property as in excellent condition and largely original, with most houses little changed from their original designs.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.736836-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86000464.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000464/9948fa5f56-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000464/9948fa5f56-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1035_President_Lancaster_Township_LanCo_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1035_President_Lancaster_Township_LanCo_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996141","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Lancaster_Township_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7057928"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/northeast-lancaster-township-historic-district-86000464/"}