Langhorne Manor School
Also known as: Langhorne Manor Borough Hall
Why it's listed
Built in 1891 in Langhorne Manor Borough, the school is a small, rectangular, one-room building of stone walls and light wood framing under a hipped slate roof. Its Queen Anne character shows in the two eyelid dormers with Palladian-style windows, the gable dormer with fish scale shingles, and a brick chimney. The walls are coursed micaceous quartzite stone, which the nomination says was quarried locally. The building was constructed for the Langhorne Manor Borough school board on land sold in June 1891 by the Langhorne Improvement Company, a firm that developed the railroad-served suburb. The school operated as a school until the late 1940s and was sold to the borough in 1959 and converted to borough hall. Its listing rests on its architecture: the nomination treats it as a rare surviving example of Queen Anne design in a one-room school, and it retains much of its original exterior and interior trim.
Significance in brief: The nomination argues the building is a locally significant example of Queen Anne architecture used for a one-room schoolhouse, a combination it describes as unusual because most one-room schools in the area are Colonial or Greek Revival. It notes that the building retains a good deal of its historic integrity despite conversion to a borough hall, unlike comparable local schools converted to residences.
Machine-generated summary. This summary was generated by a language model from the official nomination document and has not been reviewed line by line by an editor. It may contain errors. Check the source document before relying on any detail. Source: nomination document (PDF) · National Archives catalog entry. NRHP reference 08000518, listed June 10, 2008. Summary generated October 2026 (model claude-haiku-5-5, prompt v1.1-2026-10-29, confidence high).
Key facts
| Address | 618 Hulmeville Rd., Langhorne Manor |
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| County | Bucks County |
| Listed | June 10, 2008 |
| Reference number | 08000518 |
| Resource type | Building |
| Period of significance | 1891 |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian / Queen Anne |
| Criteria |
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| Areas of significance | Architecture |
| Level of significance | Local |
| Status (as stated in the nomination) | Used as Langhorne Manor Borough Hall, with public meeting space and offices for the borough police department on the ground floor. |
| Acreage | 0.9 |
| Coordinates | 40.16653, -74.92037 (NPS GIS) |
What listing means for this property
For a publicly owned building or structure, listing mainly matters when federal funds, permits or licences are involved: projects then go through Section 106 review so effects on the property are considered. Listing also strengthens applications for preservation grants and, for leased income-producing uses, can enable the federal rehabilitation tax credit.
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm with your State Historic Preservation Office or a qualified adviser.
Sources and further reading
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places database (snapshot May 2026), reference 08000518.
- Nomination form (PDF, National Archives) — catalog entry
- Wikipedia article (used for cross-checking only; text not reproduced here)
- Wikidata Q6486108
- This listing as JSON
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