The Point Pleasant Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

that is located in Point Pleasant, Plumstead Township and Tinicum Township,

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. It was added to the

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in 1989.

History and architectural features

This district includes seventy-four contributing buildings and four contributing structures that are located in the riverfront and resort village of Point Pleasant. They include a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings. The buildings are predominantly -story, stone and frame, gable roofed structures that are reflective of vernacular,

Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...

, and

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styles. Notable buildings include "The Brambles," the Thomas Schwartz House (c. 1840), the Stover Mansion (Tattersall Inn), the Point Pleasant School (1850), the Baptist Church (1852), the Point Pleasant Hotel (c. 1840), the Jacob Sutters Hotel (c. 1870), Waterman's Inn (1832), and the Stover Grist and Saw Mill (c. 1742). The contributing structures are four bridges that cross the

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. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the

in 1989.

References

External links

Tattersall Inn at the Stover Mansion website
{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Historic districts in Bucks County, Pennsylvania Greek Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Italianate architecture in Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Bucks County, Pennsylvania