{"nrhp_refnum":"07000796","name":"Springhouse Farm","other_names":["Knight, Eric, Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2184 Springhouse Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springfield","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.530024202500044,"lon":-75.27383420740188,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-08-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Literature"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm property on Springhouse Lane in Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, centered on a stone farmhouse with a barn, carriage house, springhouse, root cellar and several outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is significant for its association with author Eric Knight, who lived there from 1939 until his death in 1943 and wrote the book Lassie Come Home and the novel This Above All at the farm. The nomination treats the farm's link to these works and to Knight's later wartime film work as the basis for listing.","narrative":"Springhouse Farm is a stone farmhouse and farm complex in Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The main house dates to about 1808 and is built into a hillside, with slate roofing and a later Colonial Revival portico and wing added around 1941. A barn built about 1810, a carriage house addition from about 1890, a springhouse and a root cellar stand on the property. The farm is significant for its association with writer Eric Knight, who bought it in 1939 and lived there until his death in a plane crash in January 1943. While at the farm he wrote the book Lassie Come Home, published in 1940, and the novel This Above All, which was sold to Twentieth Century Fox in 1941. The sale money paid for the 1941 addition, and Knight also worked on Frank Capra's Why We Fight films from the farm.","period_of_significance":"1939 to 1943","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"COLONIAL / Georgian","criteria":["B"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.305133-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/07000796.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000796/3aa04bb69e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000796/3aa04bb69e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SPRINGHOUSE_FARM.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</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:SPRINGHOUSE_FARM.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998239","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springhouse_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7581136"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/springhouse-farm-07000796/"}