{"nrhp_refnum":"87001210","name":"Tyler, George F., Mansion","other_names":["Residence at Indian Council Rock","Tyler Hall"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"W side of Swamp Rd./PA 313","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newtown","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.23956433650005,"lon":-74.96881321676918,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-07-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A sixty-room French Norman style brownstone mansion with formal gardens, an orangery and bath houses, built as a private estate on high cliffs above Neshaminy Creek in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, now part of the Bucks County Community College campus.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the mansion is the grandest house of its period in Bucks County and the largest and most expensive commission of the Philadelphia architectural firm Willing, Sims, and Talbutt. It states the house conveys its architectural significance through its largely unaltered exterior, retained interior spaces and landscaped setting, and that nothing comparable exists elsewhere in the county.","narrative":"Built in brownstone near Newtown in Bucks County, the George F. Tyler Mansion was designed for George and Stella Elkins Tyler and constructed beginning in 1930 by the Philadelphia firm of Willing, Sims, and Talbutt. The French Norman house runs about three hundred feet end to end and contains some sixty rooms, with walls two feet thick, cork-lined interiors, copper gutters and specially made roof tiles. Its interiors include paneled reception rooms, Goya prints, antique frescoes and more than twenty fireplaces. The grounds include terraced formal gardens with fountains, an orangery and two bath houses. The mansion is regarded as the firm's largest and most expensive commission, and as the most ambitious private residence of its era in the county. Since 1965 it has served as part of the Bucks County Community College campus, and the exterior and most significant interior spaces remain largely intact.","period_of_significance":"1931","architect_builder":"Willing, Sims and Talbutt (architects)","architectural_style":"French Norman","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Converted to educational use as part of Bucks County Community College; original gardens removed, filled-in swimming pool","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.307094-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/87001210.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001210/5b1fe46ae4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001210/5b1fe46ae4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tyler_Mansion,_Newtown_PA_10.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:Tyler_Mansion,_Newtown_PA_10.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996765","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_F._Tyler_Mansion","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5539152"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/tyler-george-f-mansion-87001210/"}