{"nrhp_refnum":"05000100","name":"Eakin, John, Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"3298 PA 212, Main St., Springtown","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springfield Township","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.55193058450004,"lon":-75.28195583526829,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-02-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex of 105.5 acres in Springfield Township, upper Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on the south slope of a hill near the Northampton County line, centered on Kooker's Tavern, a stone house built in sections from about 1739 to 1773, and the Eakin Barn.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property documents continuous agricultural and commercial development from 1737 to 1947, including a tavern, grist mill, lime quarries and kilns, and a fish hatchery. It cites the tavern's three-section construction as an architectural example of English and German building preferences in the area, and the surviving vernacular outbuildings and barn as intact examples of rural Pennsylvania building.","narrative":"Along the south slope of a hill in Springfield Township, upper Bucks County, stands a farm complex built around Kooker's Tavern, a stone house raised in three sections between about 1739 and 1773. Stephen Twining built the east end, Jacob Kooker, a stone mason, added the middle section and tavern facilities, and a datestone above the front door carries the initials and date 1773 for the final west section. The English and German building traditions show in the two halves of the house. Nearby, the three-story stone Eakin Barn, built in the second quarter of the 19th century, has original hewn chestnut framing and a closed forebay. Other features include a late 18th-century springhouse set in a pond used as a fish hatchery, a mid-18th-century smokehouse, and the ruins of an early 19th-century summer kitchen. The property was used for milling, tavern keeping, lime burning, fish farming, and crop and dairy farming through 1947. It is important for its record of these combined activities and for its surviving stone buildings.","period_of_significance":"1737-1947","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Georgian; Penn Plan; Pennsylvania German closed-forebay bank barn; vernacular","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition described as very good for the principal buildings; the lime quarry was filled in around 1951 and the site is now used by an automobile business.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.01473-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/05000100.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000100/f0ae1edaec-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000100/f0ae1edaec-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"PattiParker","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Eakins_Farm_1.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">PattiParker</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:John_Eakins_Farm_1.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07001379","name":"Springtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/springtown-historic-district-07001379/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998241","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eakin_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6231011"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/eakin-john-farm-05000100/"}