{"nrhp_refnum":"03001124","name":"Knipe-Moore-Rupp Farm","other_names":["Cedar View Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Hancock, Rd. and Prospect Ave, North Wales","address_restricted":false,"city":"Upper Gwynedd Township","county":"Montgomery County","state":"PA","lat":40.221394998500045,"lon":-75.25725677806219,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 108-acre farm complex on Hancock Road in Upper Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, centered on a stone farmhouse and a stone bank barn dated 1808, with outbuildings, orchard and fields.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm was one of the largest and most productive in Gwynedd Township during the nineteenth century, with dairy and crop output well above neighbors. The farmhouse is presented as a representative evolutionary farmhouse with Gothic Revival and Italianate detailing added in the mid-nineteenth century, and the barn as an example of a Pennsylvania barn.","narrative":"Stone farmhouse and bank barn on Hancock Road in Upper Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, forming a farm complex of about 108 acres. The house began as a c. 1808 stone dwelling with a German plan and was enlarged in the mid-nineteenth century into a center-hall residence with Gothic Revival and Italianate detailing, including a cross gable with an arched window, bracketed eaves and terra-cotta chimney pots. The stone barn bears a datestone of 1808 and is a Pennsylvania barn with its stalls and hay mow largely intact. Joseph Knipe assembled the land in the 1790s, and the farm later belonged to Adam Moore, whose operation in the 1850s through 1880s was among the largest and most productive in the township. Its dairy output, hay production and butter yields, recorded in federal agricultural schedules, placed it well above neighboring farms. The property is considered important for its agricultural history and for its architecture, which reflects the evolution of southeastern Pennsylvania farmhouses.","period_of_significance":"1808-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival; Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.224222-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/03001124.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001124/aba3fc56ed-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001124/aba3fc56ed-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knipe_MR_farm_Montco_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knipe_MR_farm_Montco_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998442","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knipe%E2%80%93Moore%E2%80%93Rupp_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6422605"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montgomery-county/knipe-moore-rupp-farm-03001124/"}