{"nrhp_refnum":"73001594","name":"Hampton Hill","other_names":["Bennet-Search House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1269 Second Street Pike, Northampton Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richboro","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.223666284000046,"lon":-75.00913336499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-04-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-section stone house in Richboro, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, known as Hampton Hill or the Bennet-Search House, part of a five-structure farm complex. The earlier section dates to c. 1744 and the larger western section to c. 1790.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house shows the combination of a Colonial and a post-Colonial structure into one dwelling and retains fine interior woodwork. Its winding stairway with landing is described as exceptionally fine and rare in rural architecture. The complex is presented as an early farm community centered on the Benet family, who moved from Long Island, New York in the early to mid-eighteenth century.","narrative":"Hampton Hill is a stone farmhouse in Richboro, Bucks County, made of two connected sections built about fifty years apart. The earlier section, a two-and-a-half-story gable house, dates to about 1744 and has a kitchen with a nine-foot fireplace and an original stone pantry sink. The larger western section, built about 1790, has three bays, two rooms on the ground floor and three upstairs, and a winding stair with a landing that joins the two parts. Its woodwork, paneling, raised-panel doors, mantels and hewn rafters are largely early or original. The house is known as the Bennet-Search House after the Benet family, who came from Long Island in the early to mid-eighteenth century. It is significant for its architecture, especially the stairway, and for preserving its original floor plans and interior woodwork through careful restoration. It is also part of a farm complex that includes a wagon shed, a cold vault and the remains of a wood shed.","period_of_significance":"c. 1744 & c. 1790","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored with repointed stonework and new roofing on the exterior; the document describes the house as well preserved.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.559386-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/73001594.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001594/aa896a4404-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001594/aa896a4404-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Dsc3507","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hampton_Hill.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Dsc3507</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hampton_Hill.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997986","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Hill_(Richboro,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5646221"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/hampton-hill-73001594/"}