Wycombe Village Historic District

Wycombe is a village of about sixty-two major buildings on roughly sixty-three acres beside Mill Creek, on the Buckingham and Wrightstown Township line in Bucks County. Most of its buildings were erected between 1891 and 1915, after the Northeast Pennsylvania Railroad opened a station called Walton Station in 1891 and a Newtown to Doylestown trolley line crossed the creek nearby. The railroad transformed a mill hamlet founded around a grist mill dating to 1743 into a service village with shops, a hotel, a coal and lumber yard, a town hall and a feed mill completed in 1927. Its homes are mostly two-and-one-half story frame houses on wooded lots, blending Queen Anne and Victorian Gothic forms with emerging Foursquare and Colonial Revival details. Oscar Martin, a Doylestown architect, designed several notable buildings, including the stone-arch bridge, the Wycombe Schoolhouse and brick houses for local clients. The village is regarded as one of the most intact turn-of-the-century railroad villages in the county.