{"nrhp_refnum":"66000646","name":"Weiser, Conrad, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2 mi. E of Womelsdorf","address_restricted":false,"city":"Womelsdorf","county":"Berks County","state":"PA","lat":40.35945191850004,"lon":-76.17307977399227,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1960-10-09","areas_of_significance":["Native American","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half-story stone farmhouse in Womelsdorf, Berks County, Pennsylvania, built by Johann Conrad Weiser in 1729 and now part of a 26-acre memorial park. It is maintained as a commemorative museum.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Weiser was the principal colonial agent in arranging and carrying out Indian policy in Pennsylvania, helping keep the western frontier peaceful in the two decades before the French and Indian War. It credits him with securing the Iroquois Six Nations' peaceful relations with the colonists through that war.","narrative":"Built by Johann Conrad Weiser in 1729 in the Tulpehocken Valley near present-day Womelsdorf, this rectangular stone farmhouse has a shingled gable roof and chimneys at each gable end. Its single first-floor room served as kitchen, dining room and parlour, with the attic used for sleeping, and a large south fireplace with a bake oven. The north end was added in 1751 for a growing family. Weiser held an important role in colonial Pennsylvania as an interpreter and diplomat. In 1737 he was sent to the Iroquois Onondaga Council to call off a war between Virginians and the Iroquois, and in 1748 he won the western tribes at the Treaty of Logstown. He also served as Lieutenant-Colonel in the First Battalion of the Pennsylvania Regiment and as the first president judge of Berks County. The house was restored around 1926. A stone springhouse-smokehouse built by Weiser stands nearby, and the Weiser family graves lie in the park.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":"Johann Conrad Weiser (builder)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored c. 1926 after the house burned; maintained as a commemorative museum by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.381096-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/66000646_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000646/0aea6a06a5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000646/0aea6a06a5-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conrad_Weiser_Homestead.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conrad_Weiser_Homestead.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994433","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Weiser_Homestead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5162625"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/berks-county/weiser-conrad-house-66000646/"}