{"nrhp_refnum":"90001409","name":"Linden Hall Historic District","other_names":["Rock Hill"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Rock Hill Rd. between Linden Hall and Brush Valley Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Linden Hall","county":"Centre County","state":"PA","lat":40.79722639250005,"lon":-77.76206159772845,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-09-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural village historic district in eastern Harris Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, built around a grist mill on Cedar Creek, with buildings dating from 1810 to 1919. It includes 33 resources, mostly vernacular residences along Rock Hill Road, plus barns, a church, a school, a cemetery, and a mill pond and dam.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be a well-preserved rural mill village whose 19th and early 20th century vernacular houses form an excellent collection representative of small central Pennsylvania villages. Its high integrity, its siting in the flood plain of intersecting creeks, and its relative isolation from major roads are cited as reasons for its preservation. It is also linked to the arrival of the railroad in 1885, which brought a building boom tied to local lumbering.","narrative":"Linden Hall is a rural village in eastern Harris Township, Centre County, that grew around a grist mill built on Cedar Creek by John Irvin in 1808. Its houses, barns, a church, a school and a small cemetery were built mostly between 1810 and 1919, along Rock Hill and Brush Valley roads. Most of the dwellings are frame or plank, two and a half stories tall, with gable roofs and a modest scale. Two brick Federal-style houses, including Irvin's 1810 house overlooking the mill pond, are the main exceptions. The village was shaped by the arrival of a railroad branch in 1885, which brought a local building boom tied to nearby lumbering. It is regarded as a representative example of a small mill village in central Pennsylvania. Its significance lies in the retention of vernacular buildings with high integrity, spanning more than a century of construction and showing a range of architectural styles. Few intrusions have been built, and the village has remained largely unchanged.","period_of_significance":"1810-1919","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Gothic Revival; vernacular","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Buildings maintain high integrity; most are well maintained; the mill was torn down in 1938 and the mill pond remains; the railroad grade remains after track was removed in 1978.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.179621-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90001409.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001409/0e3618fce6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001409/0e3618fce6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mark Boeckel","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dubsite_Church,_Linden_Hall,_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Boeckel</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:Dubsite_Church,_Linden_Hall,_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996280","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linden_Hall_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6552312"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/centre-county/linden-hall-historic-district-90001409/"}