{"nrhp_refnum":"11000925","name":"Green Hill Farms","other_names":["Eastern Baptist Theoligical Seminary","Palmer Theological Seminary"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6 E. Lancaster Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lower Merion","county":"Montgomery County","state":"PA","lat":39.99029948500004,"lon":-75.25393049399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-12-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former residential hotel at the west corner of City Line and E. Lancaster Avenues in Wynnewood, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, with an attached garage and a 1951 chapel to the east. The hotel and garage date to 1919.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is significant under Criterion A for religion as the educational center of the fundamentalist and evangelical Baptist movement in the northern United States. The Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary converted the former hotel to a seminary in 1939, and the chapel was added in 1951.","narrative":"Built in 1919 in Wynnewood as a residential hotel by Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer for Charles Morris Wood, the four-story brown brick Colonial Revival building offered 150 rooms and suites, a 400-seat dining room, and a garage for 100 cars. Its location on the Pennsylvania Railroad main line put downtown Philadelphia about twelve minutes away. In 1939 the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary bought the hotel, sunken gardens and pool for $550,000 and used it for classrooms, a library and student housing. Students and faculty used the former garage and terrace dining room, and in 1951 a 600-seat chapel designed by William H. Lee was built to the east. The property is regarded as the educational center of the fundamentalist and evangelical Baptist movement in the northern United States, which is the basis for its listing under the religion theme. The 1957 brick addition linking the hotel and garage is also part of the seminary's expansion.","period_of_significance":"1939-1951","architect_builder":"Horace Trumbauer (hotel and garage); William H. Lee (chapel and 1957 addition)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Currently owned by Palmer Theological Seminary, per the document.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.309414-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/11000925.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000925/931bef6fa1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000925/931bef6fa1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Green_Hill_Hotel_MontCo_PA_b.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</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:Green_Hill_Hotel_MontCo_PA_b.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996329","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139756794"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montgomery-county/green-hill-farms-11000925/"}