{"nrhp_refnum":"71000737","name":"Gates, Gen. Horatio, House, and Golden Plough Tavern","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"157-159 W. Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"York","county":"York County","state":"PA","lat":39.962078252000026,"lon":-76.72943178699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-12-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two adjoining 18th-century buildings on West Market Street in York, York County, Pennsylvania: the General Gates House (157 West Market Street) and the Golden Plough Tavern (159 West Market Street). The Golden Plough Tavern was built in 1741 by Michael (or Martin) Eichelberger, and the Gates House was built in 1751 by Joseph Chambers.","why_significant":"The Gates House is significant for its Georgian architecture and for a banquet held there during the Continental Congress's stay in York, where Lafayette's toast to Washington is said to have ended the Conway Cabal. The Golden Plough Tavern is described as probably the most important surviving building of York's architectural history, the only remaining example in the town of a medieval half-timber type of construction used by early German settlers. Its combination of log and half-timber construction is noted as possibly unique in America.","narrative":"Two adjoining buildings on West Market Street in York illustrate the mid-eighteenth-century mix of German and English building traditions. The Golden Plough Tavern, built in 1741 by Michael Eichelberger on lot 120 of Thomas Cookson's plan of York, is a two-story structure with a central chimney, horizontal log walls on the first floor and half-timbered upper stories with brick nogging. Next door, the General Gates House, built in 1751 by Joseph Chambers, is a Georgian house of blue limestone with a symmetrical facade, two end chimneys and a center hall. General Horatio Gates rented the house in 1778 while Congress sat in York. A banquet held there is said to have ended the Conway Cabal after Lafayette proposed a toast to Washington. Both buildings were restored between 1961 and 1964, and their interiors hold furniture dating to before 1780 and 1760.","period_of_significance":"1741-1780","architect_builder":"Michael (or Martin) Eichelberger (builder, Golden Plough Tavern); Joseph Chambers (builder, General Gates House)","architectural_style":"Georgian (General Gates House); medieval German half-timber (Golden Plough Tavern)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored between 1961 and 1964 under the supervision of G. Edwin Brumbaugh; both are in the Original Site position and in altered condition as marked on the form.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.197632-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/71000737.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000737/c60d46eb90-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000737/c60d46eb90-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Adavidb","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YorkPaGPTavern.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Adavidb</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YorkPaGPTavern.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79002371","name":"York Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/york-historic-district-79002371/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998866","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Plough_Tavern","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15221813"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/york-county/gates-gen-horatio-house-and-golden-plough-tavern-71000737/"}