{"nrhp_refnum":"03000493","name":"Lupfer, Israel and Samuel, Tannery Site and House","other_names":["Monterey Tannery"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Black Hollow Rd., SW of Toboyne/Jackson Townships","address_restricted":false,"city":"Toboyne","county":"Perry County","state":"PA","lat":40.28181276600003,"lon":-77.53370964199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-05-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Historic - Non-Aboriginal"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-acre wooded property along Back Hollow Road in Toboyne Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania, comprising the archaeological remains of a nineteenth-century tanning operation and an 1852 stone residence. It lies within the Tuscarora State Forest.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is significant for its role in Perry County's tanning industry and for the substantial archaeological remains of the tannery, which are said to be unusually well preserved. The site is presented as able to yield information on how mid-to-late nineteenth-century Pennsylvania tanneries operated and how their workers lived.","narrative":"Along Shaeffer Run in Toboyne Township, Perry County, lie the buried and partly visible remains of a tannery operated by Israel and Samuel Lupfer from 1848 until the late nineteenth century. The visible foundations of four large ground pits, a walkway and a raceway roughly measure 104 by 166 feet, and the steam boiler stood at the south corner of the site. Workers' housing, a bark preparation house and a cook house survive below ground. Beside the road stands the Lupfer residence, built in 1852 of stone, with a four-room vernacular plan associated with the Pennsylvania German community, a cooking fireplace with crane, and original six-over-six sash and paneled doors. Israel Lupfer sold both tannery properties in 1878. The 1850 and 1860 manufacture censuses record the tannery's hides, workforce and output. The site is regarded as significant for its largely unaltered archaeological evidence of a small rural tanning works, a building type rarely surviving in the region.","period_of_significance":"1848-ca.1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","D"],"status_note":"The archaeological remains are visible above ground in late fall, winter and early spring; the residence is retained, and a three-car stone garage (ca. 1930) and a late-twentieth-century frame outbuilding are noncontributing. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania owned the property from 1917 until 1972, when it was acquired by the present owners.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.225861-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/03000493.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000493/df42ab1799-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000493/df42ab1799-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Mapdudepa","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lupfer_house.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mapdudepa</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:Lupfer_house.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998362","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_Samuel_Lupfer_Tannery_Site_and_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6087314"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/perry-county/lupfer-israel-and-samuel-tannery-site-and-house-03000493/"}