{"nrhp_refnum":"00000965","name":"Gordon, George W., Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"333 Mary Hoge Rd., 0.3 mi. SW of Gordon Hill","address_restricted":false,"city":"Franklin","county":"Greene County","state":"PA","lat":39.84785350200005,"lon":-80.15665178080718,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-08-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex in Franklin and Whitely Townships, Greene County, Pennsylvania, centred on a two-story, five-bay brick Italianate farmhouse and a set of outbuildings and fields. The house and farm are associated with George W. Gordon, a banker who established the farm around 1879.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is a good example of the stock-sheep farming that dominated Greene and Washington Counties in the late nineteenth century, with its layout of scattered field sheds and hilltop house. The house is argued to be an Italianate variation on the regional five-bay, center passage farmhouse, with interior and exterior details typical of the style.","narrative":"Built in brick around 1879 in the hills of Greene County, Pennsylvania, the George W. Gordon Farm combines a two-story, five-bay Italianate farmhouse with a barn, stable, wash house and several pegged timber field buildings, all dating from about 1880. The house sits on a ridge with a view over the sloped fields, which were laid out for raising sheep. Its segmentally arched windows, drip mouldings and cast iron mantelpieces are typical of the style in the region. The farm reflects the regional boom in stock sheep raising in the late nineteenth century, when Greene and Washington Counties led the state in sheep numbers. After the Gordons sold the property, it shifted toward cattle and dairy farming, and the buildings and field arrangement still show both phases. George W. Gordon was a banker who inherited the land from his father and ran the farm as a stock operation. The farm is listed for its agricultural layout and for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1879-1949","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The fields are actively farmed and the chicken coop is non-contributing; a wagon shed dates to about 1930 and the property was later purchased as a residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.118534-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/00000965.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000965/03bd15f6a6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000965/03bd15f6a6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_West_Gordon_Farm.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Generic1139</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_West_Gordon_Farm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995627","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_West_Gordon_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5546170"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/greene-county/gordon-george-w-farm-00000965/"}