{"nrhp_refnum":"00000966","name":"Cold Spring Farm","other_names":["Morton, Peter and Louisa, Farmstead"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"323 Lions Park Dr., McConnellsburg","address_restricted":false,"city":"Todd","county":"Fulton County","state":"PA","lat":39.93718582100004,"lon":-77.98774528636471,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-08-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former farmstead remnant on the northeast edge of McConnellsburg in Todd Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania, consisting of a brick house built in 1900-01, a stone springhouse and a stone slaughterhouse. The brick house was built by Peter Morton.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm made a successful transition from subsistence and local market farming to specialized meat and milk production for local retail sale, tied to the Lincoln Highway and the growth of farm commerce in McConnellsburg. The house is presented as an intact example of a transitional blend of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles, and the outbuildings as earlier 19th-century remnants altered in the early 1900s.","narrative":"Brick farmhouse on the northeast edge of McConnellsburg, Fulton County, with a stone springhouse and stone slaughterhouse on a 21-acre remnant of a larger farm. Peter Morton, a county commissioner and later associate judge, made the bricks himself at a kiln on an adjacent lot and completed the two-story house in 1900-01, with a date incised in one brick. The house combines Queen Anne and Colonial Revival features, including a cross gable with a Palladian window, a wraparound porch and chestnut woodwork with a massive staircase. Under his son George, the farm became a retail dairy, with milk bottled in the springhouse, which received a gambrel roof and a bay window in 1920. The slaughterhouse, which retains butchering equipment, supported a meat business run with a brother-in-law. The farm supplied milk to McConnellsburg until 1941, when competition ended its operation. The property is significant for documenting the shift to specialized farm production after 1900, when the Lincoln Highway boosted local trade.","period_of_significance":"1900-ca. 1941","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian Queen Anne and Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The buildings were vacant for some time and vandalized; rehabilitation work is in progress, with the house being converted to a bed and breakfast inn.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.746631-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/00000966.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000966/a7018749a2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000966/a7018749a2-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cold_Spring_Farm_gated_driveway.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cold_Spring_Farm_gated_driveway.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998364","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Spring_Farm_(McConnellsburg,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5142351"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fulton-county/cold-spring-farm-00000966/"}