{"nrhp_refnum":"05000415","name":"Stanley","other_names":["Wistar, Thomas, Jr. Farm","Fox Chase Farm","Butler Farm","Mount Stanley"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"8500 Pine Rd., Rocklege","address_restricted":false,"city":"Abington Township","county":"Montgomery County","state":"PA","lat":40.091111657000056,"lon":-75.07479599432622,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-05-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 112.3-acre historic farm district called Stanley, now known as Fox Chase Farm, in Abington Township, Montgomery County, with 30.6 acres in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It contains a farmstead of 12 contributing buildings, 3 contributing structures and one non-contributing educational building.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is significant for agriculture, from a Quaker subsistence farm to an institutional dairy farm run for the Friends Asylum for the Insane, and then as a gentleman's farm. Its architecture is significant for a range of farm buildings and residences, including a bank barn with English antecedents and Federal Style stone farmhouses. The farm is described as an agricultural rarity partly within Philadelphia's city limits.","narrative":"Stanley is a historic farm of 112 acres in Abington Township, Montgomery County, with a small part in Philadelphia, that is now called Fox Chase Farm. Its farmstead includes a three-story stone bank barn attributed to about 1780-1800, an 1822 Federal Style stone manor house, an 1849 stuccoed stone farmhouse and a dairy complex built around 1902 to 1906. The land passed through the McVeagh family and then to Thomas Wistar, a Quaker merchant who gave the estate house to his son in 1822. From 1901 to 1917 the Friends Asylum for the Insane ran the farm as a dairy supplying its patients, and later it was a gentleman's farm owned by George Horace Lorimer. The city bought part of the land in 1975 and the Philadelphia School District now uses the farm for agricultural education. The farm is regarded as a rare survival of an early Pennsylvania farmstead with its buildings, fields and grazing land largely intact.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1780-1954","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Stick/Eastlake; Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Barn reconstructed after a 1997 fire; the farm is an active working farm used for agricultural education and public programs.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.2605-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/05000415.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000415/872b40e889-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000415/872b40e889-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Hshuvaeva","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fox_Chase_Farm_Manor_House_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Hshuvaeva</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:Fox_Chase_Farm_Manor_House_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994443","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Chase_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5476637"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montgomery-county/stanley-05000415/"}