{"nrhp_refnum":"71000690","name":"Harvey, William, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW of Chadds Ford on Brinton's Bridge Rd. off U.S. 1, Pennsbury Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chadds Ford","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":39.87640402900007,"lon":-75.61743175799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-05-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A stone bank house of 2-1/2 stories on the north side and three and a half stories on the south side, in Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built after 1715 by William Harvey, a maltster from Worcestershire, England.","why_significant":"The house is the earliest of five remaining houses the Harvey family built in Chester County during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is associated with the Harvey family's local Quaker meeting involvement and with the Battle of the Brandywine in 1777, when it stood in the line of fire. The form notes that its interior layout was documented in a 1821 will and that no structural changes were made until remodeling after 1926.","narrative":"Built after 1715 by William Harvey, a maltster who emigrated from Worcestershire, England, this stone bank house of two and a half stories on the north side and three and a half on the south stands in Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Harvey bought 300 acres from Joseph and Hannah Gilpin in August 1715, and the house passed to his son William and later to his grandson Amos, whose 1821 will describes its rooms, doors and fireplaces in detail. The family were members of Concord Monthly Meeting, and a son, James, worked as a schoolmaster. The house is the earliest of five surviving Harvey family houses built in Chester County during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It stood in the line of fire at the Battle of the Brandywine on 11 September 1777, and local tradition holds that William Harvey the younger refused to leave until a cannonball broke through the kitchen wall. The building has been altered since, with a frame east wing added between 1930 and 1954 and the original south porch replaced.","period_of_significance":"c. 1720","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C","A"],"status_note":"Altered: a frame wing on the east was added 1930-1954 and a porch on the south replaced the original; the frame part was no longer present when the photograph was taken.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.873402-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/71000690.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000690/4775609078-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000690/4775609078-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wm_Harvey_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wm_Harvey_House.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"66000660","name":"Brandywine Battlefield","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/brandywine-battlefield-66000660/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994963","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harvey_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8010992"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/harvey-william-house-71000690/"}