The Upper Aquetong Valley Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Upper Aquetong Valley Historic District | |
 Upper Aquetong Valley Historic District. November 2012. | |
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| Location | Meeting House and Aquetong Rds., between US 202 and Sugan Rd., Solebury Township, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 40°21′44″N 75°00′07″W / 40.36222°N 75.00194°W |
| Area | 1,275 acres (516 ha) |
| Architectural style | Georgian, Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 87001216[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 30, 1987 |
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]
History and architectural features edit
This district emcompasses fifty-five contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and eleven contributing structures that are located along Meeting House Road and the upper branch of Aquetong Creek. This district, which overlaps with the Honey Hollow Watershed National Historic Landmark, also encompasses a dozen farmsteads composed of eighteenth and nineteenth-century farmhouses with their associated outbuildings. A number of the houses exhibit vernacular, Federal and Georgian-style details.
Architecturally notable buildings include the Solebury Meeting House (c. 1806) and the Federal style John Blackfan House (c. 1836).[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Judith Hayman Moore; Jeffrey L. Marshall & Gregory Ramsey (March 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Upper Aquetong Valley Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved October 28, 2012.