The Gilbert Hicks House - Langhorne Historic District - Langhorne, NJ
N 40° 10.563 W 074° 55.209
18T E 506798 N 4447300
Squint real hard, imagine the last one hundred years or so of additions and you might resolve the original Hicks House before it was transformed into the Parry Building and its current commercial usage.
Waymark Code: WM8CWZ
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 03/13/2010
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Interesting contributing structure across from and next to NRHP sites. There have been several expansion over the last few hundred years. The single family home is now a huge "mall". I love this brick building. There is a couple of huge chimneys on the ends and two dormers on the right side.
This building is also known as the Isaac Hicks house as it was originally a much smaller single family dwelling which has since been enormously expanded to accommodate several businesses. One can assume the expansion was completed around 1912. The Langhorne Coffee House occupies the original portion of this structure.
William Parry lived in the Langhorne area all his life and worked with his father in a coal and lumber business at the foot of Langhorne Hill, near the train station. By 1901 he was well established in a prosperous fire insurance business and purchased the Hicks House from which he ran his business. He moved with his wife and two children into a new three-story stone house at Station and Prospect Avenues in Langhorne Manor. Parry constructed the first telephone line and organized the Langhorne trolley company. Before moving his insurance business into the Parry building, he remodeled it, adding a wing parallel to Bellevue Ave. and store windows facing Maple Avenue. This is the source of the 1912 dated stone.
SOURCE
The nomination form and contributing structure narratives were mailed to me by Christine Messing who works at the NR/NHL Archives in Washington, D.C. I have included an image below of the excerpt for this site.
Rather than copy and paste, I have included the link HERE provided by the Historic Langhorne Association which offers a complete and comprehensive history of the hotel.