{"nrhp_refnum":"02000891","name":"Stephenson-Campbell House","other_names":["Stephenson Log House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"At the endof Tomahawk Claim Lne. off of Reissing Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cecil","county":"Washington County","state":"PA","lat":40.34231321000004,"lon":-80.19465382894076,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-08-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Conservation","Architecture","Other"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A property of 22.9 acres in Cecil Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, centered on a 1778 hewn log house with 1856 and later additions, a 1929 Sears mail-order bungalow, a springhouse, a garage and a designed garden with an ornamental pond.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the log house is the oldest known log house in Washington County and one of few pre-1780 log houses surviving in Western Pennsylvania, with an unusually long single-pen plan and a center chimney. The 1928-29 restoration and landscape design by a Pittsburgh family are presented as an early local example of the Conservation Movement's back-to-nature retreats.","narrative":"Set in a valley called Reissing Hollow in Cecil Township, the Stephenson-Campbell Property centres on a log house built in 1778 by David Stephenson. Its 34-foot length and 16-foot depth, with a center sandstone chimney and hewn logs 12 to 14 inches high, make it unusually long for an early log house in the region. The house was abandoned for many years before Pittsburgh insurance adjuster J. Sherman Campbell bought it in 1928 and restored it as a summer retreat. The Campbells added a 1929 Sears mail-order bungalow, a springhouse and a garden built around a spring-fed lagoon-shaped pond. The property is significant for its log construction, its rarity in Washington County, and its early role in the Conservation Movement's back-to-nature retreats in the area.","period_of_significance":"1778-1952","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"no style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Restored in 1928-29 and remodeled for year-round use in 1975; the log house and grounds are described as in good condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.851846-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/02000891.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000891/5d214f8160-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000891/5d214f8160-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stephenson-Campbell_House_log_east_and_south.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:Stephenson-Campbell_House_log_east_and_south.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994921","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenson%E2%80%93Campbell_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7610979"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/washington-county/stephenson-campbell-house-02000891/"}