{"nrhp_refnum":"01000459","name":"Moyer, John Nicholas and Elizabeth, House","other_names":["Richland"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"152 Hetrick Rd. (Jefferson Township)","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Shaefferstown","county":"Berks County","state":"PA","lat":40.42479530700007,"lon":-76.17576146299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-05-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story limestone farmhouse with an attached stone summer kitchen, located in Jefferson Township, western Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was built around 1817 by John Nicholas and Elizabeth Moyer and is the only surviving building of the former Moyer farmstead.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a locally significant example of early-19th-century stone farmhouse design that blends Georgian and Federal elements with Pennsylvania German vernacular traditions. It is described as an excellent example of local Pennsylvania German vernacular architecture with strong Georgian and Federal features, and its interior woodwork and carved details are cited as distinctive. The Moyer family's ties to the Tulpehocken Settlement and its church add historical context.","narrative":"Built around 1817 of local limestone in Jefferson Township, western Berks County, the Moyer House is a two-and-a-half-story farmhouse with a four-bay facade and two front doors, a traditional Pennsylvania German arrangement. John Nicholas Moyer and his wife Elizabeth had it constructed on the family's Richland farm, a property patented to him in 1809. Its features blend Georgian and Federal styling: dentils and block modillions on the cornice, a carved Federal-style front doorway, and four-over-four double-hung windows with wooden keystone crowns. The interior has a four-room plan with corner fireplaces that have hand-carved surrounds, plastered walls and wainscoting. A stone summer kitchen was added to the rear around 1818-20. The house is one of the few surviving structures from the Tulpehocken Settlement's early period, and it is valued for its well-preserved interior woodwork and its representation of a regional building type.","period_of_significance":"C. 1817-c. 1820","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian, Federal and Pennsylvania German vernacular","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house is described as retaining integrity; two frame additions were built in 1998 and the other farm buildings have been lost.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.00312-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/01000459.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000459/6a8ab6349b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000459/6a8ab6349b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JOHN_NICHOLAS_AND_ELIZABETH_MOYER_HOUSE,_BERKS_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JOHN_NICHOLAS_AND_ELIZABETH_MOYER_HOUSE,_BERKS_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995957","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nicholas_and_Elizabeth_Moyer_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6250421"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/berks-county/moyer-john-nicholas-and-elizabeth-house-01000459/"}