{"nrhp_refnum":"11000231","name":"Grey, Zane, House (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"135 Lackawaxen Scenic Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lackawaxen","county":"Pike County","state":"PA","lat":41.48537979200006,"lon":-74.98780926358441,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-04-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Literature"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Four Square style wood-frame house on Scenic Drive in Lackawaxen, Pike County, Pennsylvania, on an approximately 3.23-acre property along the Delaware and Lackawaxen rivers. It was built in 1906 by Zane Grey's brother Romer and purchased by Zane Grey in 1914.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be significant for its association with the early career of novelist Zane Grey, whose Western novels helped establish the Western as a major genre in American literature and film. Grey wrote many of his early Western works there, and the nomination argues the property was the base from which he traveled West for material.","narrative":"Built in 1906 by Romer Grey, brother of the novelist Zane Grey, this two-story wood-frame house sits on a bluestone foundation on a rise above Scenic Drive in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, overlooking the Delaware River. Zane Grey bought the house in 1914, and additions in 1915 and 1916 gave it the rectangular footprint it has today. The property is significant for its connection to Grey's early literary career. He wrote several of his first Westerns here, including The Heritage of the Desert, published in 1910, and Riders of the Purple Sage, which became his first best-seller in 1912. Grey drew on trips to the American West, which he began in 1906, and the Lackawaxen setting shaped his early work. His novels helped establish the formula that defined the Western in American fiction and film. The period of significance runs from 1906 to 1929, the last year Grey visited the property.","period_of_significance":"1906-1929","architect_builder":"Romer Grey (builder of the original 1906 house)","architectural_style":"Four Square","criteria":["B"],"status_note":"Property is owned by the National Park Service","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.194453-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/11000231.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000231/ee865befb2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000231/ee865befb2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zane_Grey_House,_Lackawaxen,_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Zane_Grey_House,_Lackawaxen,_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996054","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zane_Grey_Museum","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8066104"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/pike-county/grey-zane-house-boundary-increase-11000231/"}