{"nrhp_refnum":"00000719","name":"Hunsberger, Isaac, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"545 W. Ridge Pike","address_restricted":false,"city":"Limerick Twp.","county":"Montgomery County","state":"PA","lat":40.23254844600007,"lon":-75.52694257799999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-06-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half story, L-shaped brick and stone vernacular Georgian farmhouse with Victorian alterations, standing near old Route 422 (Ridge Pike) in Limerick Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, built in 1827 by Isaac Hunsberger. It includes a contributing frame bakehouse/summer kitchen.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be a rare early example of combined brick and stone masonry, with a Flemish bond brick facade quoined into native stone gable walls, which the nomination says has no other known examples in the area before or after 1827. Its preserved 1827 plan and details, along with the 1893 Victorian facade alterations, are presented as typical of rural Southeastern Pennsylvania farmhouses.","narrative":"Built in 1827 by Isaac Hunsberger on a 61-acre farm in Limerick Township, this two-and-one-half story house is a vernacular Georgian farmhouse with an unusual combination of masonry. The Flemish bond brick facade is quoined into coursed native stone gable walls, a pairing the nomination describes as unusual for the period and area. The house follows a center hall plan with one room on each side of the hall and an ell-shaped kitchen at the rear. In 1893 the first floor front windows were lowered to full length and given Victorian sash, and an 1926 two-floor addition was built into the kitchen ell. Hunsberger probably fired the bricks in a kiln on the property, which may explain the ten years between his 1813 purchase and construction. Its frame bakehouse, built in 1827, survives beside it. The house is listed for its architecture, as a rural example of Georgian design and as a rare early use of mixed brick and stone construction.","period_of_significance":"1827-1926","architect_builder":"Isaac Hunsberger (builder)","architectural_style":"Colonial/Georgian; Late Victorian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored and used by the Limerick Township Historical Society, which holds the house and bakehouse and opens it to the public one day a week.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.012911-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/00000719.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000719/7bd481dd1c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000719/7bd481dd1c-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hunsberger_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hunsberger_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996276","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Hunsberger_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6076528"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montgomery-county/hunsberger-isaac-house-00000719/"}