{"nrhp_refnum":"94001055","name":"Oxford Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of Market and N. 3rd Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oxford","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":39.78534931400003,"lon":-75.97841953499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-08-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story brick Italianate hotel on the corner of Market and N. 3rd Streets in the business district of Oxford Borough, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The present building grew from a three-story brick hotel of 1853 through additions in 1888, 1894 and 1924.","why_significant":"The hotel is presented as the borough's oldest and most important commercial building, with a tavern site dating to the 18th century on a stagecoach route. Its successive additions reflect the town's commercial growth and the hotel's business success. The document argues that its late Victorian commercial architecture, including the turret and bracketed cornices, reflects the character of the business district.","narrative":"Brick hotel at the corner of Market and N. 3rd Streets in Oxford Borough, built in 1853 and enlarged in 1888, 1894 and 1924. The site has hosted a hotel since the 18th century, when a tavern stood on a crossroads on the Limestone Road and later served as a wheat depository during the Revolutionary War. The 1853 three-story structure was converted by later owners into a larger commercial hotel with a two-story porch added in 1869. In 1894 Armstrong, the owner, hired architect George Jones to build an addition with sixteen bedrooms and a corner turret of pressed metal with a conical roof. The building is regarded as a clear example of late Victorian commercial architecture in the borough, and its changing additions record the growth of the local economy and the hotel's business success.","period_of_significance":"1853-1943","architect_builder":"George Jones (architect of the 1894 addition)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"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 17:11:36.910851-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/94001055.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001055/36eb79187b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001055/36eb79187b-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxford_PA_Hotel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones at en.wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxford_PA_Hotel.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"06001336","name":"Oxford Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/oxford-historic-district-06001336/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996867","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Hotel_(Oxford,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7115364"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/oxford-hotel-94001055/"}