Historic Moravian Bethlehem Historic District National Historic Landmark Nomination (Updated Documentation)
Mowers CD. 2023. Historic Moravian Bethlehem Historic District National Historic Landmark Nomination (Updated Documentation). National Historic Landmark Nominations. 12001016_NHL. National Park Service. Washington, DC
This document is updated National Historic Landmark documentation of HISTORIC MORAVIAN BETHLEHEM HISTORIC DISTRICT in Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The National Historic Landmark (NHL) nomination for the Historic Moravian Bethlehem Historic District in Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania in documents its national significance under NHL Criteria 1 and 4, NHL Criteria Exceptions 1 and 5 as a physical expression of an eighteenth-century structured communal religious society. Bethlehem served as the center of Moravian activities in America and as such, it played a key role in both the international and American Moravian community. The Historic Moravian Bethlehem Historic District is also nationally significant under NHL Criterion 4 as an outstanding example of Moravian architecture and town planning. The period of national significance is 1741-1810.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Mowers, Charlene
- Date of Issue
- 2023-12-11
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Keywords
- National Historic Landmark Bethlehem, PA Moravian religion vernacular architecture