{"nrhp_refnum":"74001777","name":"Baldwin-Reynolds House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Terrace St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Meadville","county":"Crawford County","state":"PA","lat":41.647698287000026,"lon":-80.15175379499993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-12-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story, five-bay brick house in Meadville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, designed in 1840 and completed in 1843 for Henry Baldwin. It is now a museum operated by the Crawford County Historical Society.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its Southern Greek Revival architecture, modeled on a Tennessee home Baldwin admired near Andrew Jackson's The Hermitage. It also ties the house to Henry Baldwin, a Pennsylvania political leader and United States Supreme Court justice who built it as his permanent home.","narrative":"Meadville's Baldwin-Reynolds House is a four-story, five-bay brick building with twenty-five rooms, designed in 1840 and completed in 1843 for Henry Baldwin. Its dominant feature is a two-story verandah encircling most of the building, supported by plain square wooden posts in place of Doric columns, which gives it the Southern character of the Greek Revival style. Baldwin modeled the house on a home he had admired near Andrew Jackson's The Hermitage in Tennessee. Baldwin had served as Crawford County's first district attorney in 1800, later represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms, and was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1829 after Jackson's election. He died in 1844, a year after the house was completed. His nephew William Reynolds bought the property in 1847 and made many interior and exterior changes, including a mansard roof with dormers. The Crawford County Historical Society acquired the house in 1963 and opened it as a museum.","period_of_significance":"1843","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Southern Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Converted into a museum after the Crawford County Historical Society purchased it in 1963; several rooms are preserved with period furniture.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:31.053683-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/74001777.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001777/bccfd4dd94-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001777/bccfd4dd94-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"CtMh67810","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baldwin_-_Reynolds_House.png\" rel=\"noopener\">CtMh67810</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baldwin_-_Reynolds_House.png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996438","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin%E2%80%93Reynolds_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4850512"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/crawford-county/baldwin-reynolds-house-74001777/"}