{"nrhp_refnum":"67000021","name":"Woodford","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"East Fairmount Park","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.99280173550005,"lon":-75.18802538891447,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1967-12-24","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1967-12-24","areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Woodford is a two-story brick Georgian mansion with a separate stable and servants' house, located within Fairmount Park on Ridge Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is operated as a historic house museum.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Woodford was begun in 1756 and is chronologically the first of the late Georgian mansions in the Philadelphia area. It is one of the few surviving multi-building complexes in the Colonial Chain of Fairmount Park mansions, and its surviving 18th-century stable is described as rare. Its furnished interior, assembled by the Naomi Wood Trust, is regarded as one of the most complete early furnishings of any Philadelphia museum house.","narrative":"Woodford is a Georgian mansion in East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, begun in 1756 by William Coleman, a judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. It was built in stages: the ground floor of the front section in 1756 to 1759, a second floor and separate stair hall about 1772, and a two-story kitchen wing around 1790. The brick front is laid in Flemish bond and has a modillioned cornice, a pedimented doorway on Tuscan columns, and a large Palladian window. The interior has a wainscoted central hall, paneled parlor and dining room with deep window seats, and coved ceilings. A stone stable and a servants' house, both regarded as dating from the first construction phase, survive alongside it. The complex is significant as one of the earliest and most complete mansions in the Colonial chain of Fairmount Park, and its furnished rooms illustrate colonial household life.","period_of_significance":"1756-1772","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Operated as a historic house museum; the stable is not now used and the small house is occupied by a Fairmount Park employee.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.354827-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/67000021_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/67000021/0ad89baa85-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/67000021/0ad89baa85-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jack Boucher","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodford-mansion.png\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Boucher</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodford-mansion.png"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"72001151","name":"Fairmount Park","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/fairmount-park-72001151/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994269","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodford_(mansion)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16903616"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/woodford-67000021/"}