{"nrhp_refnum":"01000593","name":"Frew, John, House","other_names":["Sterrett, Rachel and Robert, House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"105 Sterrett St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsburgh","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.42953545100005,"lon":-80.05854936799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-05-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A ca. 1790 three-story fieldstone farmhouse with a ca. 1840 one-and-a-half story brick and weatherboard Greek Revival addition, on a banked site overlooking Sterrett Street in the southwestern part of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare, well-preserved survivor of early settlement farmsteads in the Pittsburgh area and an unusual example of stone vernacular construction. It also argues that the joining of a Georgian-influenced stone house and a center-passage Greek Revival addition is a rare transitional farmstead design in Allegheny County.","narrative":"Set on a banked site above Sterrett Street in southwestern Pittsburgh, the John Frew House combines two periods of construction. The older section is a three-story fieldstone cabin of about 1790, roughly twenty by sixteen feet, with one room per floor and hand-chiseled stone with square-cut quoins. Around 1840 a five-bay, center-passage Greek Revival house of brick and weatherboard was joined to it, with full-width porches front and back. The nomination regards the stone house as one of the smallest and earliest of the Federal-era stone farmhouses recorded in western Pennsylvania. It describes the Greek Revival section as one of the purest examples of its type in the region, and the combination as unique in Allegheny County. The farm was owned by the Frew family from 1788 and later by the Sterrett and Chess families. Local accounts say it operated a cider mill, and its surrounding outbuildings have since been demolished.","period_of_significance":"ca.1790 - ca.1840","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Georgian Style; Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The nomination states the entire property is in excellent condition; the garage, greenhouses and pool were added in the twentieth century, and the spring house was reconstructed in the early 1980s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.468377-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/01000593.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000593/06af165dbe-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000593/06af165dbe-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lee Paxton","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JohnFrewHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Paxton</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:JohnFrewHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997814","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frew_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6234236"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/frew-john-house-01000593/"}