{"nrhp_refnum":"97000518","name":"Glen Rock Historic District","other_names":["Heathcote's Station"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Glenvue Rd., Hanover, Manchester, Valley, Church and Center Sts., Shrewsbury Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Glen Rock","county":"York County","state":"PA","lat":39.793629797500046,"lon":-76.73255920741626,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-05-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Glen Rock Historic District is an irregularly shaped district in the borough of Glen Rock, York County, Pennsylvania, extending from the \"meadows\" along the Codorus Creek valley up the surrounding hillsides. It contains residential, commercial, institutional and industrial buildings, along with a few structures and one site.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the district's built environment reflects the town's growth from the Northern Central Railway's completion in 1838 through the early 20th century, when an industrial and commercial economy developed around the creek and railroad. It presents the district's architecture, from vernacular Germanic and Georgian houses to Queen Anne, Craftsman and Colonial Revival buildings, as a coherent and largely intact record of that development. Seventy-eight percent of the buildings are described as contributing.","narrative":"Glen Rock is a borough in York County, Pennsylvania, whose houses, shops and civic buildings climb the hills above the Codorus Creek valley. Its built history runs from the Northern Central Railway's completion in 1838 through the early twentieth century. Most of the district's contributing buildings date from between the Civil War and the First World War, when the population roughly quadrupled. Early vernacular Germanic and Georgian farmhouses and industrialists' residences survive from the mid-nineteenth century, including a stone house built circa 1850 by William H. Heathcote. The district's most elaborate house is the \"Castle\" on Cottage Avenue, built in 1889 by Joseph Dise, who developed the street. Industrial buildings, including the 1916 Industrial Sewing Company factory on Baltimore Street, and the Peoples Bank of Glen Rock, built in 1912, show the town's manufacturing and commercial history. Its streetscape of closely spaced houses on steep slopes is considered distinctive.","period_of_significance":"1838-1945","architect_builder":"Dise, Joseph (architect); Shewell, Jesse (builder)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Bungalow/Craftsman; vernacular Germanic; vernacular Georgian; Colonial Revival; Victorian Gothic; Utilitarian","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 17:11:37.273493-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/97000518.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995679","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Rock_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5568008"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/york-county/glen-rock-historic-district-97000518/"}