{"nrhp_refnum":"87001993","name":"Langhorne Historic District","other_names":["Attleborough","See Also:Richardson, Joseph, House","Langhorne Li"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Summit & Marshall Aves., Pine St., Richardson Ave., & Green St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Langhorne","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.17881376050008,"lon":-74.91969851604463,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-11-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Langhorne Historic District is a crossroads borough district occupying a major portion of Langhorne Borough in southern Bucks County, Pennsylvania, centered on Maple and Bellevue Avenues. It contains 252 contributing buildings, one contributing cemetery site, and 51 non-contributing buildings, built mainly as two and one-half story residences from 1738 to 1937.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be important for transportation, commerce and architecture in southern Bucks County. Langhorne was a stage-coach transfer point on the Philadelphia to Trenton and Bristol to Easton routes and a principal eighteenth and nineteenth century service center. Its collection of vernacular and high style architecture is said to be rivaled only by Newtown in the region.","narrative":"Langhorne began as a crossroads settlement in southern Bucks County where two Lenni-Lenape paths met, later Maple and Bellevue Avenues. Joseph Richardson opened a store in an inn there by 1730 and built a stone house on the southwest corner in 1738, which is the oldest building in the district. Because of its position, Langhorne served as a stage coach transfer point between the Philadelphia to Trenton road and the Bristol to Easton road until railroads replaced stages in the 1870s. Its merchants and craftsmen served farmers between Newtown and Hulmeville. From the 1870s, Philadelphians built large high style houses along South Bellevue and West Maple Avenues. The district contains Federal, Italianate, Second Empire and Queen Anne houses alongside plainer vernacular homes, with buildings dating from 1738 to 1937.","period_of_significance":"1738-1937","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular, with Federal, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne and bungalow examples","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 17:11:33.786139-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/87001993.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001993/de28af9820-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001993/de28af9820-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Hshuvaeva","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langhorne_HD_14.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Hshuvaeva</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:Langhorne_HD_14.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996155","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langhorne_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6486105"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/langhorne-historic-district-87001993/"}