{"nrhp_refnum":"72001124","name":"Hughes House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Hatfield St., Jefferson Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jefferson","county":"Greene County","state":"PA","lat":39.93276893800004,"lon":-80.05977450399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-12-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half story stone house in Jefferson, Greene County, Pennsylvania, built into a sloping bank so that the rear side appears to have three stories. It is a Western Pennsylvania vernacular frontier dwelling with a one-and-a-half story north gable extension.","why_significant":"The nomination links the house to Thomas Hughes, a settler who led an 1791 protest against the whiskey tax and helped lay out the village of Jefferson in 1814. The house is argued to be typical of frontier dwellings in this part of the state, and it is also associated with Hughes's early coal exploitation.","narrative":"Built of stone into a sloping bank in Jefferson, Greene County, the Hughes House is a two-and-a-half story Western Pennsylvania vernacular dwelling with a smaller one-and-a-half story extension on its north gable. Thomas Hughes built it in 1814, the same year he and another large landowner laid out plans for the village of Jefferson. Hughes had moved to the Carmichael's Valley from Virginia in 1771 and became known as a fierce Indian fighter who preferred to defend his own cabin rather than the local fort. In August 1791 he led around 30 men with blackened faces in an attack on William Faulkner's home, protesting Alexander Hamilton's whiskey tax. Hughes was later a justice of the peace and county commissioner, and he was an early entrepreneur in mining surface outcrops of bituminous coal. The house is regarded as typical of frontier dwellings in this section of the state.","period_of_significance":"1814","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Western Pennsylvania vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"The house is owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is to be renovated as a museum.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.198109-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/72001124.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001124/bffc301243-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001124/bffc301243-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Kathy","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hughes_House_near_Jefferson.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kathy</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hughes_House_near_Jefferson.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995955","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_House_(Jefferson,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5933364"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/greene-county/hughes-house-72001124/"}