{"nrhp_refnum":"93000727","name":"McConnellsburg Historic District","other_names":["See Also: Fulton House","McConnell House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, Lincoln Way from First St. to Fifth Ave. and Second St. from Spruce St. to Maple St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"McConnellsburg","county":"Fulton County","state":"PA","lat":39.932386426500045,"lon":-77.99872631878316,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-08-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about three and a half blocks in McConnellsburg, the county seat and largest borough of Fulton County, Pennsylvania, centred on Lincoln Way (old U.S. Route 30) and Second Street. It contains roughly 158 buildings, most dating from the late 18th to the mid 20th century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant for its role as a stopping place on the Philadelphia to Pittsburgh turnpike, later the Lincoln Highway, and for the travel-related inns, taverns and automobile garages that reflect it. It also cites the town's status as county seat since 1850, marked by the Greek Revival courthouse, and its comprehensive range of residential, commercial and governmental architecture in the county.","narrative":"Along Lincoln Way in McConnellsburg, the county seat of Fulton County, a district of roughly 158 buildings records a town shaped by the road that ran from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. Daniel McConnell operated an inn on the packhorse route by 1765, and the town was laid out in 1786. Its taverns, inns and blacksmith shops served travellers, and an 1835 tax list shows 46 of 107 listed occupations tied to the turnpike. Buildings range from the late 18th century into the 1940s, including Georgian houses of the 1790s, the Fulton House inn dating from 1793, and the Greek Revival courthouse built in 1852 after the county was created in 1850. Early 20th century automobile garages mark the road's later life as the Lincoln Highway. Thirteen of the buildings are non-contributing, mostly post-1950 infill.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1762-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, American Four Square, Colonial Revival, Bungalow","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Buildings are described as generally in good to excellent condition, with 13 of about 158 buildings non-contributing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.565488-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/93000727.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000727/de56b8984c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000727/de56b8984c-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fulton_County_PA_Courthouse.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:Fulton_County_PA_Courthouse.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996426","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McConnellsburg_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15252520"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fulton-county/mcconnellsburg-historic-district-93000727/"}