{"nrhp_refnum":"08001270","name":"Wynnestay","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5125 Woodbine Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.99610652900003,"lon":-75.23018275499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-12-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Wynnestay is a late 17th-century stone farmhouse at the corner of 52nd Street and Woodbine Avenue in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia, with a Colonial Revival rehabilitation and new wing completed in 1904, a 1904 stone carriage house, and a stuccoed spring house. The three buildings sit on a lot of less than an acre.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property embodies the distinctive characteristics of early twentieth-century Colonial Revival architecture, through Walter Smedley's 1904 rehabilitation of the 1690 and 1700 farmhouse sections and the addition of a large new wing. It also notes that the property became a showcase for the Wynnefield development fostered by Smedley's company.","narrative":"Built in stone in 1690 and 1700 as a Quaker farmhouse on the Welsh Tract, Wynnestay was remodeled and extended in 1904 by the Philadelphia architect Walter Smedley. He joined the older stone sections with a six-bay north wing, added dormers, windows and doors, and finished the whole house in Colonial Revival detail, using Wissahickon schist from the farmstead's demolished barn. A stone carriage house with coachman's quarters dates from the same year, and an earlier stuccoed spring house stands near the eastern property line. The property is significant as a high-style example of Colonial Revival rehabilitation from the first decade of the twentieth century. It was also a showcase for Wynnefield, a railroad suburb developed by Smedley and his cousin, and it is tied to the Wynne family who owned the land from the early eighteenth century.","period_of_significance":"1904","architect_builder":"Smedley, Walter","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as essentially unaltered after more than one hundred years of residential use, with later changes in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.592393-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/08001270.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001270/ca67d19e1b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001270/ca67d19e1b-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jack Boucher","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wynnestay_(cropped).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Boucher</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wynnestay_(cropped).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"72001151","name":"Fairmount Park","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/fairmount-park-72001151/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996974","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynnestay","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16903776"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/wynnestay-08001270/"}