{"nrhp_refnum":"72133612","name":"Temple-Webster-Stoner House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E of Romansville off PA 162","address_restricted":false,"city":"Romansville","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":39.94512320300004,"lon":-75.70104850999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-03-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two and one-half story fieldstone house with a later one and a half story kitchen wing, located in a secluded setting near Broad Run in West Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The house is an example of the \"Penn Plan\" type.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the finest aesthetically unaltered examples of the Penn Plan, with more original woodwork than nearly any other house in the county. It is presented as a rare, unadulterated demonstration of individual interpretation within an early Pennsylvania settlement design. Its preservation is attributed to its secluded location and to a later house built on the property in the 1830s, which protected it from substantial alteration.","narrative":"Built of local fieldstone near Broad Run in West Bradford Township, Chester County, the house has a main section measuring 21 by 17 feet, four feet in its original form, with two rooms sharing back-to-back corner fireplaces and a small stair hall. Upright unpainted board screens divide the rooms from floor to ceiling. A kitchen wing of about 1800 was added later, and the roof of that wing was raised three feet in the twentieth century. The house stands on land once occupied by a fulling mill that operated for roughly 175 years. Its woodwork is regarded as among the most original in the county, and the house is seen as a rare survival of early Pennsylvania building practice. The Temple family owned the property from 1822 to 1916, and their long ownership, along with an 1830s house built nearby, helped keep the original fabric largely intact.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Penn Plan","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Original site retained; kitchen wing and later alterations present; storm windows and heating added in the twentieth century.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:31.096408-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/72133612.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72133612/7e1ac206f3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72133612/7e1ac206f3-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Temple_Webster_Stoner_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Temple_Webster_Stoner_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998015","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple-Webster-Stoner_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7698412"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/temple-webster-stoner-house-72133612/"}