{"nrhp_refnum":"98000898","name":"Milford Historic District","other_names":["Milford Downtown Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly along Broad, Harford, Ann, Catharine, High, and Fourth Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Milford","county":"Pike County","state":"PA","lat":41.323539729500055,"lon":-74.80178859279458,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-07-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Politics/Government","Entertainment/Recreation","Conservation","Education"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district forming the commercial core of Milford, the county seat of Pike County in the Pocono Mountains on the west shore of the Delaware River in northeastern Pennsylvania. It covers about 22 acres along Broad Street and portions of the cross streets and contains 74 resources.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Milford's downtown reflects its long role as a trading center and county seat, and its nineteenth- and early twentieth-century prominence as a summer resort that drew visitors, artists and early film production. It also cites the concentration of architectural styles across the district, the use of local bluestone, and the work of local builders and the architects Hunt and Hunt.","narrative":"Milford's central business district lies along Broad Street in Pike County, Pennsylvania, on a bluff above the Delaware River. Laid out by the judge John Biddis in 1793 on a regular grid, the town became county seat, first of Wayne County in 1798 and then of Pike County in 1814. Its storefronts, hotels and civic buildings were largely built between 1820 and 1900, and many are Italianate in character, with Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Romanesque Revival, Second Empire and Tudor Revival examples nearby. The district holds the 1872-74 Second Pike County Court House, the 1899 Milford Municipal Building and the 1904 Forester's Hall, which housed the Yale School of Forestry. Several buildings use native bluestone, a material tied to a late nineteenth-century quarrying industry. Milford's summer resort trade, with its hotels and visiting actors and artists, and its early film shoots, shaped the commercial life of the downtown.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1740-ca. 1947","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"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 17:11:37.995986-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/98000898.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000898/4680912445-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000898/4680912445-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forest_Hall_Milford_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forest_Hall_Milford_PA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"02000951","name":"Milford Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/milford-historic-district-boundary-increase-02000951/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996557","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110816523"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/pike-county/milford-historic-district-98000898/"}