{"nrhp_refnum":"71000684","name":"Pemberton, Phineas, House","other_names":["Bolton Mansion"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Holly Dr., Bristol Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Levittown","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.16038116800007,"lon":-74.83933742399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-09-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Bolton Mansion, a group of four connected stone structures on a farm in Levittown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, begun in 1687 and completed in 1790.","why_significant":"The farm was the home of Phineas Pemberton, an early colonial public servant and associate of William Penn who held provincial, assembly and county offices. The complex is also important architecturally: its 1687 stone house is among the earliest buildings in Bucks County, and the connected sections show the evolution of architectural styles in early southeastern Pennsylvania.","narrative":"Set on a farm in Bucks County, the Bolton Mansion is a cluster of four connected stone buildings begun in 1687 and completed in 1790. The oldest part is a two-story rubble fieldstone wing containing the house Phineas Pemberton built in 1687, one of the earliest surviving buildings in the county. The main section, finished in 1790 by his descendants, is a late Georgian country mansion with a gambrel roof, semi-dressed fieldstone walls and a Doric-pilastered entrance, showing the shift from Georgian to Neo-Classical design. Pemberton was a close associate of William Penn who sat on the provincial council and in the Assembly, serving as Speaker in 1698, and he held several county offices, including Register of Wills and Clerk of the courts. The house is valued for its association with him and for its record of how architectural styles changed in southeastern Pennsylvania over more than a century. Many original windows and woodwork have been lost to vandalism, and the chimneys are gone.","period_of_significance":"1687-1790","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Georgian country mansion, transitional to Neo-Classical","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:12:57.957109-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/71000684.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000684/b2f275ff1c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000684/b2f275ff1c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BristolPA_PhineasPembertonHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BristolPA_PhineasPembertonHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996238","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Pemberton_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7186366"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/pemberton-phineas-house-71000684/"}