{"nrhp_refnum":"87001966","name":"Wayne Hotel","other_names":["Wayne Wood Hotel"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"139 E. Lancaster Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wayne","county":"Delaware County","state":"PA","lat":40.044088473000045,"lon":-75.38635451499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-11-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story Tudor Revival commercial hotel at the corner of Waynewood Avenue and Lancaster Avenue atop a small hill in the center of the Wayne business district, Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1906 of brick, stucco and false half-timbering.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hotel is an outstanding example of turn-of-the-century commercial architecture and the only commercial building in Radnor Township designed in the Tudor Revival style. It is also described as one of the best preserved examples of that period's commercial architecture along the Route 30 corridor, and it served as a community focal point and meeting place.","narrative":"Built in 1906 by local builder Jonathan D. Langel for Charles H. Wood, the Wayne Hotel rises five stories on a hill at the corner of Waynewood and Lancaster Avenues in Wayne, Radnor Township. It was erected to serve the summer resort trade after the Bellevue Hotel, a 200-guest establishment, burned in 1900. Its Tudor Revival design uses brick, stucco and false half-timbering, with a front porch, bay windows, and a semicircular dining room projection on the east side. The interior retains a coffered-ceiling lobby, a library, and a dining room with original woodwork, and it contains thirty-four bedrooms. Over the years the building served as a community meeting place, a church retirement and nursing home, and a synagogue. It is regarded as the only commercial Tudor Revival building in the township and one of the best preserved turn-of-the-century commercial buildings on Route 30, which is why it was listed.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Jonathan D. Langel (builder)","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The document states that in 1985 the present owners returned the building to its original function as a hotel.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.36577-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/87001966.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001966/1d9508807f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001966/1d9508807f-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wayne_Hotel_Wayne_PA_b.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:Wayne_Hotel_Wayne_PA_b.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"12000607","name":"Downtown Wayne Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/downtown-wayne-historic-district-12000607/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998578","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7976343"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/delaware-county/wayne-hotel-87001966/"}