{"nrhp_refnum":"66000668","name":"Stiegel-Coleman House","other_names":["Elizabeth Farms"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"PA 501 and U.S. 322","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brickerville","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.23831548800007,"lon":-76.29445864836292,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-11-13","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1966-11-13","areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A stone mansion at Elizabeth Farms near Brickerville (Lititz) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, built in sections by ironmaster Henry William Stiegel from 1756-58 and enlarged by Robert Coleman between 1776 and 1790. It is the Stiegel-Coleman House, with a terraced garden behind it and nearby 18th-century iron-estate buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is associated with two early industrialists, Stiegel and Coleman, and with more than a century of iron manufacturing on the estate. Coleman is described as probably the largest fortune holder in post-Revolutionary Pennsylvania and as an example of an individual ironmaster who came to control many works. The house is presented as a rare surviving example of that industrial empire's center.","narrative":"Built in stages beginning in 1756-58 by the ironmaster Henry William Stiegel, the stone house at Elizabeth Farms near Lititz, Lancaster County, was enlarged between 1776 and 1790 by Robert Coleman, who acquired the estate in 1776. The two-story Stiegel section is stone with a gable roof, and the Coleman addition is plastered stone with a dormer and a porch on the front and two sides. The parlor keeps its original handblocked French wallpaper, and the rooms retain their woodwork. Behind the house a terraced garden, dominated by old boxwood, was probably laid out between 1800 and 1810. The estate is important for its link to early American iron making and glass production. Stiegel's Elizabeth Furnace produced iron and glass before the Revolution. Coleman later ran a large group of forges and furnaces, and during the war his furnace made shot, shells, and cannon with Hessian prisoners as laborers. The house is still owned by the Coleman family and used as a residence.","period_of_significance":"1756-1790","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"The house is still owned by the Coleman family and used as a private residence; the outbuildings may be visited only by special permission.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.793669-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/66000668_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000668/cad422b245-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000668/cad422b245-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiegel_Coleman_House_LanCo_PA.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:Stiegel_Coleman_House_LanCo_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994235","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiegel-Coleman_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7616377"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/stiegel-coleman-house-66000668/"}