Jersey Shore Historic District

Jersey Shore is a borough on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, and its historic district contains 336 buildings, roughly sixty of them of major architectural importance. Most were built between about 1830 and 1860, and many show Federal or Greek Revival design, with others displaying Georgian, Italianate, Gothic Revival and French Second Empire features. The town grew as a depot for the lumber regions of Pine and Larry's Creeks after the West Branch Canal passed through in 1834, and many of its houses were built for merchants and industrialists. Notable examples include the Slonaker House, a Greek temple form house with a portico of fluted Ionic columns, and the Gamble House, originally Italianate and later remodeled with Beaux-Arts Classical features. The district is valued as a cohesive example of a mid-nineteenth-century town, despite a number of later commercial intrusions.