{"nrhp_refnum":"88001203","name":"Nazareth Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Centered on Center and Main Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Nazareth","county":"Northampton County","state":"PA","lat":40.742276017500075,"lon":-75.3098182910702,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-08-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Education","Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in the center of Nazareth Borough, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, mostly residential with commercial buildings near Center Square, containing houses, churches, schools and industrial buildings from the mid-eighteenth to early twentieth century. It includes the Moravian Congregation Cemetery as a contributing site.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant for its Moravian planned religious community from the mid-eighteenth century to 1858, for its role as a principal Moravian settlement and boys' educational center in Pennsylvania, and for its commercial growth and high style architecture from 1859 to 1938. It is described as an outstanding representative of Moravian heritage and the largest collection of period high style architecture in central Northampton County.","narrative":"Nazareth's historic district occupies the center of the borough in northeastern Pennsylvania, on a hillside sloping southeast. Moravian settlers founded the community in the mid-eighteenth century as a planned religious settlement closed to non-Moravians, and their stone and timber buildings survive, including the 1755-1756 Manor House with its gambrel roof and cupola. The Moravian Church of 1861 and St. John's U.C.C. Church, built 1905-1907, are notable churches. The Moravians opened the town in 1858, after which population grew from about 1,000 in 1880 to over 3,000 by 1930. Cement plants and textile mills drew workers, and many of the roughly 510 contributing buildings were built for them. Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Bungalow houses form a large high style collection, and the district served as the central commercial hub of the county.","period_of_significance":"1740-1938","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Colonial Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Moravian; Romanesque Revival; Gothic Revival","criteria":["A"],"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 17:11:37.597596-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88001203.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001203/1b625945df-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001203/1b625945df-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Center_Square,_Nazareth_PA_01.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:Center_Square,_Nazareth_PA_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996675","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazareth_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6983318"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/northampton-county/nazareth-historic-district-88001203/"}