{"nrhp_refnum":"72001147","name":"Cliffs, The","other_names":["See Also:Fairmount Park"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"East Fairmount Park near 33rd St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.979432091000035,"lon":-75.19414812199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-03-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Georgian country house with a full basement in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, built in the 1750s by Joshua Fisher. It is of rubble stone construction with ashlar-incised stucco walls.","why_significant":"The house is significant for its Georgian architecture, which the nomination calls a gem exhibiting fine proportion and symmetry. It is also associated with the Fisher family, a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family whose diaries are of major interest to historians, and with Sarah Franklin Bache, who was a tenant in 1789.","narrative":"Built in the 1750s by Joshua Fisher, the Cliffs is a two-story Georgian country house with a full basement, three bays wide, built of rubble stone with ashlar-incised stucco walls and a hipped tin-covered roof. Small projecting gables mark the center doorways on the front and rear facades, and a chimney stands at each end. Its interior has two rooms on each floor with paneled chimney walls, chair rails, dados and cornices. The house remained in the Fisher family until 1868, when the Fairmount Park Commission acquired it. The Fishers were a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family whose lawyers, merchants and historians left diaries of major interest to historians of nineteenth-century Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin's daughter, Sarah Franklin Bache, rented the house in 1789. The building is regarded as an example of Georgian proportion and symmetry, and of the eighteenth-century taste for country living.","period_of_significance":"1753","architect_builder":"Joshua Fisher (builder)","architectural_style":"Georgian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a residence for Park employees; modern amenities added, including a kitchen in its original basement location, an underground garage and boiler room on the west end.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.278828-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/72001147.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001147/1bcc81c182-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001147/1bcc81c182-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Rgsmith2b at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_cliffs_3.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rgsmith2b at English Wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_cliffs_3.jpg"},"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/71996958","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cliffs","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7723384"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/cliffs-the-72001147/"}