{"nrhp_refnum":"87001252","name":"Kimberton Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See also:Kimberton Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Hare's Hill, Prizer, and Kimberton Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kimberton","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":40.13250742400004,"lon":-75.57438438731141,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-07-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Transportation","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic village district at the crossroads of Kimberton and Hare's Hill roads in Kimberton, Chester County, Pennsylvania, containing sixty-two buildings and two structures, including a stone bridge and a dam. It was originally listed in 1974 and this boundary increase added forty-nine buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is locally significant as an agricultural and commercial village that served as a local education, market and transportation center. It highlights the influence of the educator and entrepreneur Emmor Kimber, the mill, tavern and store economy, and the growth around the Pickering Valley Railroad station after 1871. The village is also described as having excellent architectural integrity and a domestic scale.","narrative":"Kimberton is a village district at the crossroads of Kimberton and Hare's Hill roads in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with buildings dating from about 1770 to the early twentieth century. Its earliest structures include the 1768 Black Bear Tavern, the stone French Creek Boarding School begun around 1787, and the 1796 Chrisman Mill, all built of local stone in a vernacular manner. Emmor Kimber, a Quaker educator who arrived in 1817, ran the boarding school, owned much of the crossroads, operated a general store, and served as the local postmaster, which gave the village its name. The district is significant for its record of local commerce, including mills, taverns, and stagecoach service. After the Pickering Valley Railroad reached the village in 1871, its eastern end grew around a station and milk receiving station. The village retains excellent integrity, with few demolitions over the past century and a predominantly domestic scale.","period_of_significance":"1768 - 1920","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial vernacular, with Queen Anne, Arts and Crafts-influenced foursquare houses, and Georgian-derived forms","criteria":[],"status_note":"Nearly all buildings are described as well maintained; the frame milk receiving station is vacant, and the former boarding school is now a multiple-family residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.591455-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/87001252.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001252/92fe2d4f08-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001252/92fe2d4f08-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kimberton_PO_Chesco_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:Kimberton_PO_Chesco_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995353","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberton_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15238490"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/kimberton-historic-district-boundary-increase-87001252/"}