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Wycombe Village Historic District is a national
historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
located in Wycombe, Buckingham Township and Wrightstown Township,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania Bucks County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 646,538, making it the fourth-most populous county in Pennsylvania. Its county seat is Doylestown. The county is named after the Englis ...
. The district includes 56 buildings and 3 structures. Including a variety of residential, commercial and institutional buildings, with notable examples of Queen Anne and
Bungalow/craftsman In the United States, the National Register of Historic Places classifies its listings by various types of architecture. Listed properties often are given one or more of 40 standard architectural style classifications that appear in the National ...
architecture. Most were built between 1891 and 1915. Notable buildings include the Carver-Slack Farmstead (c. 1790-1820), Coal and Lumber Yard / Feed Mill (1892-1927), Wycombe Station (1891-1892), Edward Kirk House (1911), Albert S. Worthington House (1908), Cope Mansion (1899), Wycombe Hall / Cope Hall (1909), Warner S. Thompson Mansion (1901), Albert J. Thompson Mansion (1899, 1909) and the Wycombe Independent Schoolhouse (1913). Located in the district and separately listed with the
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is the Gen. John Lacey Homestead. ''Note:'' This includes Added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1985.


Gallery

Wycombe Village HD Station 01.JPG, Wycombe Station. Wycombe Village HD Station 06.JPG, Wycombe Station. Wycombe Village HD Baptist Church 02.JPG, Wycombe Baptist Church. Wycombe Village HD 01.JPG, Township Line Rd. Wycombe Village HD 04 Public House.JPG, Mill Creek Rd. Public House. Wycombe Village HD Coal and Lumber Yard 01.JPG, Coal and Lumber Yard. Wycombe Village HD Coal and Lumber Yard 04.JPG, Coal and Lumber Yard.


References

Queen Anne architecture in Pennsylvania Historic districts in Bucks County, Pennsylvania 1891 establishments in Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Bucks County, Pennsylvania {{BucksCountyPA-NRHP-stub