{"nrhp_refnum":"01000678","name":"Cree, William, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W side of PA 1011, 0.1 mi. N of PA 21","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jefferson Township","county":"Greene County","state":"PA","lat":39.89148080700005,"lon":-80.04583658199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-07-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-bay stone house on a hillside overlooking Muddy Creek in Jefferson Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, about a half mile northwest of the village of Khedive. The house, with an attached springhouse, was built between 1790 and 1794 by William Cree, a Revolutionary War veteran.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an early, distinguished stone building with a simple one-room-per-floor plan, showing the transition from log houses to stone in Greene County. Its segmentally arched openings and masonry detailing are described as unusual for the region, and it is considered one of very few surviving eighteenth-century masonry buildings in the county.","narrative":"Built of sandstone in the early 1790s on a hillside above Muddy Creek in Jefferson Township, Greene County, the Cree House is a two-story, three-bay house with a single room on each floor. William Cree, a Revolutionary War veteran, is credited with its construction after patenting the surrounding 280-acre farm in 1789. Its ashlar and rubble walls, rough-cut quoins, and segmentally arched windows and doors are described as unusually refined for its date and region. The house is regarded as one of the first stone houses in Greene County and one of very few eighteenth-century masonry buildings still standing there. In a county where most frontier houses were log, it marks the shift toward permanent stone construction. Its small floor plan, cooking fireplace, bedroom chimney cupboard, and winding corner stair with painted grain finish preserve features typical of houses of its era. The 1798 tax records describe a house of matching size, which supports its early date.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1790-1794","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal era stone cabin","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Occupied by the present owners; the house retains its stone shell, with a log addition attached about 1974.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.291394-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/01000678.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000678/d50a4f6cc3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000678/d50a4f6cc3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Cree_House.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:William_Cree_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995960","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cree_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8007279"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/greene-county/cree-william-house-01000678/"}