{"nrhp_refnum":"09000386","name":"McClelland-Grimes Farm","other_names":["Elysian Fields Farm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"844 Craynes Run Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Morgan","county":"Greene County","state":"PA","lat":39.96369747950004,"lon":-74.13850136009685,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-06-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 192-acre hilly farm with pasture, woodlots, cropland and a farmstead near Morgan, about eight miles northeast of Waynesburg in Greene County, Pennsylvania. Its principal house is an 1873 brick Italianate farmhouse built by Michael M. McClelland.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is a fine example of southwestern Pennsylvania diversified agriculture and sheep raising under Criterion A, illustrating production patterns for the periods 1850-1890, 1890-1930 and 1930-1960. Its house, barns, wash house, corn crib and scale shed are cited as physical evidence of changing farm strategies, and the farm's pasture and crop landscape is treated as coequal with its buildings.","narrative":"Pasture-dominated farmland in the hills northeast of Waynesburg, Greene County, centers on an 1873 brick Italianate farmhouse built by Michael M. McClelland. The farm combines woodlots, cropland, streams and a farmstead of fourteen buildings, eight of them contributing, including an 1883 timber frame barn, a late nineteenth-century sheep barn, a smoke house and ice house, and a mid-twentieth-century poultry house. McClelland's holdings grew to 512 acres with 450 sheep at their largest, and his production in 1850 and 1880 exceeded township and county averages in livestock, butter and corn. After his 1888 financial reversal, the farm passed through the Grimes family, whose records document diversified income from sheep, hay, coal and natural gas. The property is regarded as a representative survivor of the region's sheep-raising economy and its later shift toward diversification.","period_of_significance":"1850-1959","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Parts of the original 342-acre farm have been subdivided; the farm is in agricultural use and the present owner has reassembled nearly 200 acres for an organic lamb operation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.18595-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/09000386.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000386/ed1e6cfd27-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000386/ed1e6cfd27-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McClelland-Grimes_Farm.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Generic1139</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:McClelland-Grimes_Farm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992973","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClelland%E2%80%93Grimes_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15252512"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/greene-county/mcclelland-grimes-farm-09000386/"}