{"nrhp_refnum":"73001654","name":"Landis Homestead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Tylersport off PA 563 on Morwood Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tylersport","county":"Montgomery County","state":"PA","lat":40.31973713200006,"lon":-75.41068559455432,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-10-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Architecture","Invention","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Landis Homestead is a farmstead in Tylersport, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, centered on a two-and-one-half story stucco-over-stone farmhouse built in 1839. The complex includes a clapboard barn, a spring house, a forge ruin and a long shed with a bell tower.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property was the site of an industrial-agricultural operation that used stored spring and surface water extensively, with theories centering on an irrigation system comparable to nearby homesteads. It also cites the Landis Corn Plow and Cultivator, developed in the blacksmith shop on the property, and a farmhouse regarded as representative of early nineteenth-century local vernacular architecture with notable unusual features.","narrative":"Built in 1839, the Landis Homestead in Tylersport is a two-and-one-half story stucco-over-stone farmhouse with a medium pitch gable roof, a central hallway plan and six-over-six sash windows. A later two-story kitchen wing, added after 1850, forms a T-shaped plan. The farmstead includes a clapboard barn with a Dutch cantilevered overhang, a spring house, a long shed with a bell tower and the ruins of a forge. The site lies at the foot of Landis Hill, where numerous springs and surface drainage supply year-round water. Its water retention and distribution system is considered evidence of an extensive agricultural and industrial operation, possibly including irrigation similar to nearby homesteads. The blacksmith shop on the property was where the Landis Corn Plow and Cultivator, an important agricultural tool, was developed. The farmhouse interior retains woodwork and a fireplace mantel characteristic of the early nineteenth century, and its unusual window and door arrangement suggests a transition in local architectural style.","period_of_significance":"1839","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Stucco over stone, central hallway type with a later T-shaped kitchen wing","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Several outbuildings formerly on the property no longer exist; a forge building survives only as ruins.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.488078-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/73001654.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001654/321302f705-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001654/321302f705-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landis_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:Landis_Montco_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998396","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landis_Homestead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6484666"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montgomery-county/landis-homestead-73001654/"}