{"nrhp_refnum":"73001648","name":"Rieth, Andreas, Homestead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SE of Pennsburg on Geryville Pike","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pennsburg","county":"Montgomery County","state":"PA","lat":40.36978218200005,"lon":-75.45875202399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-09-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex on the Geryville Pike east of Macoby Creek near Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, consisting of a stone farmhouse and a smaller stone bank house that was converted from a dwelling into a barn.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the two buildings are important for understanding the native architecture of southeast Pennsylvania, linking folk Germanic building traditions with Georgian and Federal-period styling. The smaller building is described as a rare example of its type, and the farmhouse is presented as a clear record of changing cultural values as the community became acculturated. The complex is said to be valuable for the study of Pennsylvania farm architecture.","narrative":"Two stone buildings on the Geryville Pike east of Macoby Creek, near Pennsburg in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, make up the Andreas Rieth farm site. The smaller structure is a one and one-half story stone bank house, built into the slope, that originally served as a dwelling and was later converted into a barn. Its interior is now bare stone with no partitions, though the fireplace and staircase remain. The larger two and one-half story stone farmhouse was built in the Germanic style and was enlarged and given a symmetrical facade around the turn of the nineteenth century, when it was remodeled in the Georgian manner and took on Federal-period features. It has two end chimneys, pent eaves, and a rear summer kitchen with a rebuilt bake oven. The complex is significant for showing how a folk building tradition was converted to a more formal, high-style farmhouse. Its buildings are also considered valuable for studying Pennsylvania farm architecture.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Germanic folk tradition; Georgian; Federal period","criteria":[],"status_note":"The farmhouse is in the process of restoration and the smaller building's interior partitions have been removed.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.248535-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/73001648.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001648/376bad220b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001648/376bad220b-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andreas_Reith_Montco_PA.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:Andreas_Reith_Montco_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996893","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Rieth_Homestead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4755605"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montgomery-county/rieth-andreas-homestead-73001648/"}