{"nrhp_refnum":"73001595","name":"Thompson, John, House","other_names":["Hip Roof House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1925 Second Street Pike, Northampton Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richboro","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.245739478000075,"lon":-75.00843082299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-07-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story stone and frame house in Richboro, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, known as the Hip Roof House, with a gambrel roof. The house was probably built about 1740 by the Cummings family.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the few examples of the gambrel type in Bucks County and is larger than the average gambrel structure of its area and time. It is also associated with John Thompson, a county sheriff, Revolutionary War wagonmaster, and mill operator, and with a robbery at the house. The form describes it as a relatively rare house of its style for the county.","narrative":"Built of stone with an elongated gambrel roof, this Richboro house in Bucks County was probably constructed about 1740 by the Cummings family, and John Thompson is documented as its occupant by 1765. Measuring 38 by 23 feet with chimneys at both ends, it has shed dormers on its roof and a tin-topped upper roof section over shingles. A stone addition on one gable end burned about 1883 and was replaced with a two-story frame section covered in wood siding. Thompson served as the first sheriff of Bucks County from 1777 to 1779, operated a flour mill he bought later, and served as a wagonmaster for George Washington during the Revolutionary War. The house is regarded as a relatively rare example of its type in the county. It is also known for a robbery in which Thompson fought the robbers, lost his money and silverware, and then pursued them to New York, where he captured them.","period_of_significance":"C. 1740","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gambrel roof house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Stands in good condition according to the significance statement; the description checks condition as Fair and notes the original 1½-story stone addition was destroyed by fire about 1883 and replaced with a frame section.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.457288-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/73001595.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001595/b5d5b35deb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001595/b5d5b35deb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Thompson_House,_Richboro_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Shuvaev</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Thompson_House,_Richboro_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997990","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thompson_House_(Richboro,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6260680"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/thompson-john-house-73001595/"}