{"nrhp_refnum":"03000527","name":"Booth Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3221 Foulk Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boothwyn","county":"Delaware County","state":"PA","lat":39.854923117000055,"lon":-75.48721259303107,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-06-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 72-acre farmstead on the southwest corner of Foulk and Bethel Roads in Bethel Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, organized around a courtyard of farm buildings including a stone farmhouse built in 1819.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is important for its association with local agricultural patterns in Bethel Township (Criterion A) and as a good representative of area farm architecture (Criterion C). The farmhouse is described as a good example of the dwellings that once characterized Bethel's agrarian landscape, and the farmstead as the only such surviving cluster in the township.","narrative":"Built in 1819 of coursed fieldstone, the Booth Farm in Bethel Township, Delaware County, is a 72-acre farmstead built around a courtyard of buildings. The core includes a two-and-a-half-story Federal-style farmhouse, a bank barn with a stone foundation dating to about 1819, a carriage barn from 1820 and a dairy from about 1919. Stone walls, built without mortar from local dark gneiss, run along the perimeter and interior lanes. The Booth family, who came from Yorkshire around 1712, farmed the land for six generations. The farm shows the shift from self-sufficient mixed farming to dairying, orchards and tenant truck farming between the 1850s and the 1950s. Its surviving cluster of farm buildings is regarded as the only such example remaining in the township, which is why it was listed for its agricultural history and its farm architecture.","period_of_significance":"1819-1953","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic/Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Farmhouse restored and renovated in 1979; the house is described as occupied by the current owner family, and the document does not state the property's current use beyond this.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.936536-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/03000527.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000527/90a1fed729-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000527/90a1fed729-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"User:Smallbones on English Wikipedia.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BoothFarm.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Smallbones on English Wikipedia.</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BoothFarm.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994722","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booth_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4943870"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/delaware-county/booth-farm-03000527/"}