Chalfont Historic District

Chalfont grew from a crossroads settlement around mills and taverns on the Neshaminy Creek in Central Bucks County. Kungle's Tavern, on land bought in 1761, stood at the junction of the Limekiln Pike and the Swede's Ford road. The Doylestown Branch of the North Pennsylvania Railroad reached the village in 1856, and a station, hotel and commercial buildings followed. The district's houses span late 18th-century vernacular Georgian and Federal dwellings near Butler Avenue, Gothic Revival and Carpenter Gothic houses with scroll-cut trim, Second Empire and Queen Anne examples, and early 20th-century Colonial Revival and Craftsman buildings. Local architect A. Oscar Martin, whose Doylestown office operated until 1942, designed several of the later buildings, including the 1916 school and the bank building. The district is noted for its collection of carriage houses and for its cohesive streetscape of mostly two-story frame houses.