{"nrhp_refnum":"87000673","name":"Harriman Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Trenton Ave., Cleveland and McKinley Sts., Farragut Ave., and West Circle","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bristol","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.10855598750004,"lon":-74.84443129431193,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-04-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 17-acre planned residential district of about 109 buildings in the northernmost ward of Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, built largely in early 1918 for workers at the nearby Emergency Fleet Corporation shipyard on the Delaware River. It includes the former Harriman Public School, now Bristol Junior/Senior High School.","why_significant":"The district is regarded as closely tied to the wartime mobilization of American industry in World War I. It was the largest single housing project the Emergency Fleet Corporation undertook in the United States, and its planned layout and carefully designed housing show an attention to workers' needs. The six earlier worker rows built by a private firm add to its significance.","narrative":"Harriman is a planned residential district in the northernmost ward of Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, laid out within an oval plan around a tree-lined boulevard called Wilson Avenue. The Emergency Fleet Corporation financed its construction beginning in early 1918 to house workers at the nearby shipyard on the Delaware River. The district contains 109 residential buildings, most of them frame multi-family dwellings with steep slate roofs in Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival styles, along with thirteen bungalows for foremen. Blocks were arranged symmetrically, with identical buildings facing each other across the streets. The community was built as a self-sufficient town, with its own utilities, a central heating plant, police and fire departments. It was the largest single EFC housing project in the country, and it is significant for its link to the wartime shipbuilding effort and for its planned, worker-focused design. Many buildings have since been altered, but the district still conveys its original character.","period_of_significance":"1907-1921","architect_builder":"Fred T. Ley Company, Inc. (general contractor; developed the town plan and designed the buildings)","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival (multi-family EFC housing); bungalows for foremen","criteria":[],"status_note":"Altered; integrity described as fair, with changes to porches, added dormers and new siding on most buildings","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:34.245984-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/87000673.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000673/812795efd2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000673/812795efd2-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Marduk","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harriman_historic_district.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Marduk</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:Harriman_historic_district.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994773","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriman_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1489474"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/harriman-historic-district-87000673/"}