{"nrhp_refnum":"03001125","name":"Ker-Feal","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1081 Bodine Rd., Chester Springs","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Pikeland Township","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":40.077093190000056,"lon":-75.60894448730073,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Art","Education"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Ker-Feal is a mid-twentieth-century Colonial Revival gentleman's farmstead on a 137.7-acre parcel at a bend in Bodine Road in West Pikeland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, with a central stone farmhouse dating to about 1775 and additions made in 1940-41.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the estate is significant for its association with Dr Albert C. Barnes, an art collector, educator and founder of The Barnes Foundation, whose ideas shaped the property. It also argues the estate is an excellent example of Colonial Revival design and typical mid-twentieth-century gentleman's farms in Chester County, built around an older stone house.","narrative":"Ker-Feal is a stone country estate in West Pikeland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, set on 137.7 acres of fields and woodland at the end of a quarter-mile driveway. Its central block is a two-and-a-half story farmhouse that is believed to date to about 1775, with flanking wings and a garage, shed, and terraced gardens added in 1940-41 for Dr Albert C. Barnes, the Philadelphia physician, Argyrol inventor and art collector who founded The Barnes Foundation. The additions were designed by the Philadelphia firm Kneedler, Mirick & Zantzinger and built by local carpenter C. Raymond Davis. Barnes intended the property as a living museum of art and a satellite of the Foundation. The estate is valued for its Colonial Revival design, its stone and cedar-shingle construction, and the way its mid-twentieth-century additions were made to match the older house. Barnes's occupancy from 1940 to 1951 is treated as its most important period.","period_of_significance":"1940-1951","architect_builder":"Kneedler, Mirick & Zantzinger (architect); C. Raymond Davis (builder)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Currently owned by The Barnes Foundation and undergoing architectural preservation and object conservation, with plans to open the property to visitors and scholars.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.701598-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/03001125.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001125/11208d35a4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001125/11208d35a4-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., photographer.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ker-Feal_Gottscho-Schleisner_gsc_5a17945.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., photographer.</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ker-Feal_Gottscho-Schleisner_gsc_5a17945.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998698","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ker-Feal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12060985"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/ker-feal-03001125/"}