Upper Aquetong Valley Historic District

Historic district in Pennsylvania, United States

United States historic place


Upper Aquetong Valley Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Upper Aquetong Valley Historic District. November 2012.
40°21′44″N 75°00′07″W / 40.36222°N 75.00194°W / 40.36222; -75.00194
Area	1,275 acres (516 ha)
Architectural style	Georgian, Federal
NRHP reference No.	87001216^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 30, 1987

The Upper Aquetong Valley Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.^[1]

History and architectural features

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

^ ^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.