Newtown Historic District (Boundary Increase: North and South Extensions)

Newtown Borough, in Bucks County, contains two residential and industrial additions to the town's existing historic district, lying east of the original Newtown Common. Most of the roughly 140 buildings are frame houses of two and a half stories built between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Queen Anne and Gothic Revival styles predominate, with turned porch posts, round turrets, cross gables and scroll-work cornices on several houses. Italianate brick houses on South Chancellor Street, built in 1870, and a Colonial Revival house on North Chancellor Street are also present. Firman's Block, a row of frame houses at North Lincoln Avenue, was built about 1872 by carpenter Joseph Firman. The South Extension includes a brick factory of 1884 on South State Street, later used by the U.S. Bobbin and Shuttle Company, which employed forty-two men in 1919. The extensions are regarded as a coherent collection of this later architecture, and the South Extension's factories represent Newtown's industrial growth.