{"nrhp_refnum":"86002867","name":"Newtown Historic District (Boundary Increase: North and South Extensions)","other_names":["See Also:Newton Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Parts of Congress, Chancellor and Liberty Sts. N of Washington Ave. and Chancellor St. S of Penn St. to S. State St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newtown","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.22810822850005,"lon":-74.93268553541337,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-10-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase to the Newtown Historic District in Newtown Borough, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, consisting of a North Extension and a South Extension adjacent to the existing district. The two extensions contain 122 contributing and sixteen non-contributing buildings, mostly dwellings with a few churches, a school, a firehouse, a former store and two factories.","why_significant":"The homes in the extensions are argued to be an outstanding collection of later nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture, similar in style to dwellings in the existing district. The South Extension is significant for a small industrial section, including a brick factory built in 1884 that was used by the U.S. Bobbin and Shuttle Company, representing Newtown's industrial growth. The extensions document the eastward expansion of the town beyond the Newtown Common.","narrative":"Newtown Borough, in Bucks County, contains two residential and industrial additions to the town's existing historic district, lying east of the original Newtown Common. Most of the roughly 140 buildings are frame houses of two and a half stories built between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Queen Anne and Gothic Revival styles predominate, with turned porch posts, round turrets, cross gables and scroll-work cornices on several houses. Italianate brick houses on South Chancellor Street, built in 1870, and a Colonial Revival house on North Chancellor Street are also present. Firman's Block, a row of frame houses at North Lincoln Avenue, was built about 1872 by carpenter Joseph Firman. The South Extension includes a brick factory of 1884 on South State Street, later used by the U.S. Bobbin and Shuttle Company, which employed forty-two men in 1919. The extensions are regarded as a coherent collection of this later architecture, and the South Extension's factories represent Newtown's industrial growth.","period_of_significance":"1683-1935","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Gothic Revival; Italianate; Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.544023-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86002867.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002867/0cafcb5b4e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002867/0cafcb5b4e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newtown,_Bucks_Co_PA_HD_White_Hall.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:Newtown,_Bucks_Co_PA_HD_White_Hall.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79002174","name":"Newtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/newtown-historic-district-79002174/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996757","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtown_Historic_District_(Newtown,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7020726"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/newtown-historic-district-boundary-increase-north-and-south-extensions-86002867/"}