{"nrhp_refnum":"73001611","name":"Martin-Little House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Phoenixville off PA 113 on Church Rd., Charlestown Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Phoenixville","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":40.08426952100007,"lon":-75.56381806199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-07-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A stucco-over-stone house in Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, built in several sections from about 1735 to the 1960s. Its original section is a one-and-one-half-story salt-box house built by Llewellyn Martin.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is architecturally significant because of the early date and unique character of its 1735 portion, which may have served as a stagecoach stop and post office along the old post road. Its pattern of growth, with a much larger early nineteenth-century wing added perpendicular to an eighteenth-century house, is presented as representative of a common area practice.","narrative":"Llewellyn Martin built the original section of this house in about 1735 in Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is a one-and-one-half-story salt-box dwelling of stucco over stone with a single room on the first floor and a loft above, and a massive chimney at the south gable end. Roger Little added a two-and-one-half-story wing perpendicular to the north elevation about 1810, five bays across the front, with a gable roof and a chimney at each gable end. A two-story kitchen wing was attached to the east end of the addition later in the nineteenth century, and frame additions followed in the 1960s and mid-twentieth century. The house is significant for the early date and unusual character of its 1735 section, which may have served as a stagecoach stop and post office along the old post road, now vacated. Its growth over three centuries, responding to the road's changing orientation and its owners' prosperity, is presented as a typical local pattern of adding a larger wing to an earlier house.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1735","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.885027-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/73001611.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001611/dba8c2849e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001611/dba8c2849e-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Little_House_Chesco.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</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:Martin_Little_House_Chesco.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997590","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin-Little_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6774827"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/martin-little-house-73001611/"}