{"nrhp_refnum":"96000718","name":"Eagles Mere Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by PA 42, Lakewood, LaPorte, and Forest Aves., Shrewsbury Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Eagles Mere","county":"Sullivan County","state":"PA","lat":41.41567975950005,"lon":-76.57665651377962,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-06-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation","Conservation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A late nineteenth and early twentieth century resort community centred on Eagles Mere Lake in the Borough of Eagles Mere, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, comprising cottages, boat houses, churches, commercial buildings and outbuildings around the lake.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant for its association with the mountain and lake resort leisure movement from the late nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century, and as an early example of successful conservation effort since the 1870s. It also argues the district holds a large concentration of domestic resort architecture in the Shingle, Queen Anne and Craftsman styles.","narrative":"Eagles Mere is a resort community of cottages, boat houses and churches grouped around a spring-fed lake 2,100 feet above sea level in the Allegheny Mountains of Sullivan County. Development began in 1877 when lots south of the lake were sold, and the 1885 purchase of the lake by a syndicate led to the building of hotels and the Eagles Mere Railway. At its height, five large hotels could accommodate more than 1,100 guests, and the hotels employed about one thousand staff each summer. Only the cottages survive from that era. Many of the district's cottages are fine examples of the Shingle, Queen Anne and Craftsman styles, and the community is regarded as one of Pennsylvania's best preserved turn-of-the-century resort communities. Its lakeside covenants, which kept trees and construction back from the shoreline, are cited as an early conservation effort. The lake, beach and wooded shoreline remain largely unchanged.","period_of_significance":"1877-1945","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Shingle Style, Queen Anne, Bungalow/Craftsman, Prairie School","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The Eagles Mere Association owns the lake, shoreline and beach; the document states the hotels of the district are gone, and that the cottages remain.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.628475-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/96000718.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000718/0dc9a5b145-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000718/0dc9a5b145-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eagles_Mere_HD_Sign_Aug_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eagles_Mere_HD_Sign_Aug_09.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"13000745","name":"Eagles Mere Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/eagles-mere-historic-district-boundary-increase-13000745/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995309","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_Mere_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5325359"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/sullivan-county/eagles-mere-historic-district-96000718/"}