List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania

This article provides a List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania. There are 163 in the state. Listed in a tables below are the 96 NHLs outside Philadelphia. For the 67 within Philadelphia, see List of National Historic Landmarks in Philadelphia.

Three of these sites are shared with other states and are credited by the National Park Service as being located in those other states: the Delaware and Hudson Canal (centered in New York but extending into Pennsylvania); the Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey (on the Ohio–Pennsylvania border); and the Minisink Archeological Site, on the New Jersey-Pennsylvania border.

1 National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania (excluding Philadelphia)
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania (excluding Philadelphia)

Following are National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania, but outside Philadelphia. For consistency, the National Historic Landmark name is used to label each one.

^[1]	Landmark name^[2]	Year listed^[2]	Locality^[2]^[3]	County^[2]	Description^[4]
1	Edward G. Acheson House	1976	Monongahela 908 Main St.	Washington	Home of self-taught inventor-engineer Edward G. Acheson, where in 1891 he invented carborundum.
2	Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail	1973	Pittsburgh 436 Grant Street	Allegheny	Spectacular jail and courthouse designed by architect Henry Hobson Richardson in a Romanesque style.
3	Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site	1966	Johnstown	Blair	Railroad that transported canalboats over the Allegheny Mountains, between the eastern and western sections of the Pennsylvania Canal; regarded as a technological marvel.
4	Andalusia	1966	Andalusia	Bucks	Greek Revival residence of Nicholas Biddle, head of the Second Bank of the United States.
5	Henry Antes House	1975	Pottstown	Montgomery
6	Augustus Lutheran Church	1967	Trappe	Montgomery
7	Bedford Springs Hotel Historic District	1984	Bedford	Bedford
8	Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey	1966	Ohioville, PA and East Liverpool, OH	Beaver, PA and Columbiana, OH
9	Beth Sholom Synagogue	2007	Elkins Park 8231 Old York Road	Montgomery	Frank Lloyd Wright designed it. The American Institute of Architects and National Trust for Historic Preservation commented upon it.
10	Bethlehem Waterworks	1972	Bethlehem	Northampton
11	Bomberger's Distillery	1975	Newmanstown	Lebanon
12	Bost Building	1999	Homestead 621–623 East 8th Avenue	Allegheny	Headquarters of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers during the Homestead Strike.
13	David Bradford House	1973	Washington 175 S. Main St.	Washington	A home of David Bradford.
14	Brandywine Battlefield	1966	Chadds Ford	Delaware
15	William Brinton 1704 House	1967	Dilworthtown	Delaware
16	Bryn Athyn Historic District	2008	Bryn Athyn	Montgomery
17	James Buchanan House	1966	Lancaster	Lancaster	Home of James Buchanan while he was President and in his final years.
18	Buckingham Friends Meeting House	2003	Buckingham Township 5684 Lower York Road	Bucks	Associated with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
19	Bushy Run Battlefield	1966	Harrison City 2 miles E. of Harrison City on Pa. Rte. 9	Westmoreland	Associated with Pontiac's Rebellion.
20	Cambria Iron Company	1989	Johnstown	Cambria
21	Simon Cameron House	1973	Harrisburg 219 S. Front St.	Dauphin	A home of Simon Cameron who had some association under Abraham Lincoln.
22	Carlisle Indian School	1966	Carlisle	Cumberland	Associated with Native American education. Athlete Jim Thorpe attended.
23	Carrie Blast Furnaces 6 and 7	2006	Rankin, Munhall, and Swissvale boroughs Northern side of the Monongahela River, 0.5 miles (0.80 km) west of the Rankin Bridge	Allegheny	The only 2 surviving pre-World War II blast furnaces in the Pittsburgh area.
24	Cedarcroft	1971	Kennett Square	Chester
25	Chatham Village Historic District	1998	Pittsburgh Roughly bounded by Virginia Avenue, Bigham Street, Woodruff Street, Saw Mill Run Boulevard, and Olympia Road	Allegheny
26	Cornwall Iron Furnace	1966	Cornwall Rexmont Rd. & Boyd St.	Lebanon
27	Delaware and Hudson Canal	1968	Lackawaxen, PA, Honesdale, PA, Kingston, NY, Rosendale, NY, Ellenville, NY, and Port Jervis, NY	Pike, PA, Wayne, PA, Orange, NY, Sullivan, NY, and Ulster, NY
28	Drake Oil Well	1966	Titusville	Venango	Edwin L. Drake struck oil here, the site of the world's first successful oil well.
29	East Broad Top Railroad	1966	Rockhill	Huntingdon
30	Eisenhower National Historic Site	1967	Gettysburg	Adams	A home of Dwight Eisenhower.
31	Emmanuel Episcopal Church	1974	Pittsburgh North and Allegheny Avenues	Allegheny
32	Ephrata Cloister	1967	Ephrata	Lancaster
33	Wharton Esherick Studio	1973	Malvern 1520 Horseshoe Trail	Chester	A studio of Wharton Esherick who participated in Arts and Crafts Movement.
34	Espy House	1974	Bedford	Bedford	Associated with Whiskey Rebellion and David Espy.
35	Fallingwater	1974	Mill Run	Fayette	Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
36	Fonthill, Mercer Museum and Moravian Pottery and Tile Works	1985	Doylestown	Bucks	Three sites associated with Henry Chapman Mercer.
37	Forks of the Ohio	1966	Pittsburgh Point Park	Allegheny	Associated with French and Indian War.
38	Fulton Opera House	1969	Lancaster 12–14 N. Prince St.	Lancaster	Associated with Robert Fulton.
39	Robert Fulton Birthplace	1966	Quarryville 8 mi. south of Quarryville on U.S. Route 22	Lancaster	Also associated with Robert Fulton.
40	Albert Gallatin House; Friendship Hill National Historic Site	1966	Point Marion	Fayette	A home of Albert Gallatin.
41	Gemeinhaus-Lewis David De Schweinitz Residence	1975	Bethlehem	Northampton	A home of botanist Lewis David de Schweinitz.
42	Graeme Park	1966	Horsham	Montgomery
43	Green Hills Farm	1974	Perkasie 520 Dublin Rd.	Bucks	A home of author Pearl S. Buck.
44	Grey Towers Castle	1980	Glenside	Montgomery	Designed by Horace Trumbauer. Now part of Arcadia University.
45	Gruber Wagon Works	1972	Reading	Berks	Located in what is now Tulpehocken Creek Park.
46	Isaac Newton and Bernardine Hagan House	2000	Chalk Hill	Fayette	A higher end Usonian house of those designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
47	Harmony Historic District	1973	Harmony	Butler	Associated with Harmony Society and George Rapp.
48	Harrisburg Central Railroad Station and Trainshed	1975	Harrisburg	Dauphin	Pennsylvania Railroad station with sheds using truss system patented by Albert Fink.
49	Milton S. Hershey Mansion	1978	Hershey Mansion Road	Dauphin	A home of Milton Snavely Hershey.
50	Honey Hollow Watershed	1969	New Hope	Bucks
51	Horseshoe Curve	1966	Altoona	Blair	A horseshoe-shaped railroad track
52	Humphry Marshall House	1987	Marshallton 1407 S. Strasburg Rd./PA Rte. 162	Chester	A home of Humphry Marshall.
53	Kennywood Park	1987	West Mifflin 4800 Kennywood Boulevard	Allegheny	From trolley park era, One of America's first amusement parks.
54	Kuerner Farm	2011	Chadds Ford Township	Delaware	The Kuerner Farm was the inspiration for more than 1,000 Wyeth paintings over a 64-year period.
55	Leap-The-Dips	1991	Altoona 700 Park Ave.	Blair	The first rollercoaster still standing in the United States.
56	F. Julius Lemoyne House	1997	Washington 49 E. Maiden St.	Washington	A home of F. Julius LeMoyne, involved with the Underground Railroad
57	Lightfoot Mill	2005	Chester Springs	Chester	See also Oliver Evans.
58	Lukens Historic District	1994	Coatesville 50, 53, 76 & 102 S. First St.	Chester	Associated with Rebecca Lukens and Brandywine Ironworks (later Lukens Steel Company).
59	Meadowcroft Rockshelter	1978	West of Avella	Washington	Archaeological site associated with Native Americans.
60	Isaac Meason House	1971	Mount Braddock	Fayette	A home of Isaac Meason.
61	Merion Cricket Club	1987	Haverford	Montgomery	From when cricket competed with baseball for American attention.
62	Merion Friends Meeting House	1998	Merion Station	Montgomery
63	Merion Golf Club, East and West Courses	1989	Ardmore	Delaware	Associated with Bobby Jones, who won the Grand Slam of Golf here in 1930.
64	Mill Grove	1972	Audubon	Montgomery	A home of John James Audubon.
65	Minisink Archeological Site	1993	Bushkill	Pike
66	Oakmont Country Club Historic District	1984	Oakmont Hulton Road	Allegheny	Host to many U.S. Opens.
67	Old Economy	1965	Ambridge	Beaver	Associated with Harmony Society and George Rapp.
68	Old West, Dickinson College	1966	Carlisle	Cumberland	Designed by Benjamin H. Latrobe, part of Dickinson College which was founded by Benjamin Rush. James Buchanan, later president, lived here.
69	Asa Packer Mansion	1974	Jim Thorpe	Carbon	Designed by Samuel Sloan, home of Asa Packer, founder of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and Lehigh University.
70	Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal	1974	Easton to Bristol Easton to Bristol along the Delaware River	Bucks and Northampton	Transported anthracite coal.
71	Pennsylvania State Capitol	2006	Harrisburg 3rd and State Streets	Dauphin	Features murals by Edwin Austin Abbey and Violet Oakley, sculptures by George Grey Barnard, floor tiles by Henry Chapman Mercer, and stained glass by William B. Van Ingen. Design was influenced by the Columbian Exposition of 1893 and designs of the Library of Congress.
72	Gifford Pinchot House	1966	Milford	Pike	Home of Gifford Pinchot, first head of the U.S. Forest Service and two-time state governor.
73	Terence V. Powderly House	1966	Scranton	Lackawanna	Longtime home of Terence Vincent Powderly, a Knights of Labor leader.
74	Joseph Priestley House	1966	Northumberland	Northumberland	Stately home of chemist Joseph Priestley, who, disenchanted with England moved here in 1794 and continued his ground-breaking research.
75	The Printzhof	1966	Essington	Delaware	A home of Johan Printz.
76	Pulpit Rocks	1993	Huntingdon	Huntingdon
77	Matthew S. Quay House	1975	Beaver	Beaver	A home of Matthew Stanley Quay, a Republican National Chairman who was campaign manager for Benjamin Harrison's successful presidential campaign.
78	St. Mark's Episcopal Church	1977	Jim Thorpe	Carbon
79	Searights Tollhouse, National Road	1966	Uniontown	Fayette	Tollhouses built in 1835 as part of the National Road.
80	Schaeffer House	2011	Schaefferstown	Lebanon	Possibly the only remaining German Weinbauernhaus in America, combining a residence with the production of alcohol.^[5]
81	Smithfield Street Bridge	1974	Pittsburgh Smithfield Street at the Monongahela River	Allegheny	A truss bridge built between 1881 and 1883.
82	Staple Bend Tunnel	1994	Conemaugh Township	Cambria	The first railroad tunnel in the United States. Regarded as an engineering marvel.
83	Stiegel-Coleman House	1966	Brickerville	Lancaster	House built in parts by owner William Stiegel and then by Robert Coleman.
84	Summerseat	1971	Morrisville	Bucks	A home of George Clymer, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
85	George Taylor House	1971	Catasauqua Lehigh & Poplar Sts.	Lehigh	A home of George Taylor, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
86	M. Carey Thomas Library, Bryn Mawr College	1991	Bryn Mawr	Montgomery	An architecturally significant building on Bryn Mawr College campus.
87	Union Canal Tunnel	1994	Lebanon Tunnel Hill Road	Lebanon
88	Valley Forge	1961	Valley Forge	Chester
89	Gen. Frederick Von Steuben Headquarters	1972	Valley Forge National Historical Park	Chester	Headquarters of drillmaster Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben who had served Frederick the Great. Now part of Valley Forge National Historical Park.
90	Washington's Crossing	1961	Yardley, PA and Titusville, NJ	Bucks, PA and Mercer County, NJ	Where George Washington crossed the Delaware River to surprise-attack the British at Trenton in 1776.
91	Washington's Headquarters	1973	Valley Forge National Historical Park Valley Creek Rd., near junction of PA 252 & 23	Montgomery	Part of Valley Forge National Historical Park.
92	Waynesborough	1973	Paoli	Chester	Home of General Anthony Wayne.
93	Conrad Weiser House	1966	Womelsdorf	Berks	A home of Johann Conrad Weiser, who enlisted the Iroquois on the British side of the French and Indian War.
94	Benjamin West Birthplace	1966	Swarthmore	Delaware	Birthplace of Benjamin West who supported artists including Gilbert Stuart and Charles Willson Peale. On campus of Swarthmore College.
95	Woodmont	1998	Gladwyne 1622 Spring Mill Rd.	Montgomery	Designed by William Lightfoot Price for industrialist Alan Wood, Jr.. Father Divine also lived here.
96	Woodville	1983	Heidelberg South of Heidelberg on Pennsylvania Route 50	Allegheny	Home of John Neville, tax collector during the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794.
97	N. C. Wyeth House and Studio	1997	Chadds Ford Township	Delaware	Home and studio of painter N.C. Wyeth and family. Managed by the Brandywine River Museum.

References

^ Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate the National Monuments, National Historic Sites, National Historic Landmark Districts and other higher designations from other NHL buildings, structures, sites or objects.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d National Park Service (June 2011). "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State" (PDF). http://www.cr.nps.gov/nhl/designations/Lists/LIST11.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-04. .
^ National Park Service. "National Historic Landmark Program: NHL Database". http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/default.cfm. Retrieved 2007-09-22.
^ National Park Service. "National Historic Landmark Program: NHL Database". http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/default.cfm. Retrieved on various dates.
^ http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/AMERICAS-GREAT-OUTDOORS-Secretary-Salazar-Designates-Four-National-Historic-Landmarks.cfm NHL annoucement

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