{"nrhp_refnum":"74001782","name":"Gaddis, Thomas, Homestead","other_names":["Fort Gaddis"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Uniontown off U.S. 119","address_restricted":false,"city":"Uniontown","county":"Fayette County","state":"PA","lat":39.867162809000035,"lon":-79.74404532899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-04-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-room hewed log homestead, about 26 feet by 20 feet and one and a half stories high, located south of Uniontown in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1758 and 1770 and remains on its original site.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is the oldest known surviving building in Fayette County and a remnant of a settlers' fort used during the Revolutionary War era. It also connects the property to Colonel Thomas Gaddis, a Virginia militia officer whose role in the Whiskey Rebellion-era local events is described in the Statement of Significance.","narrative":"Built of hewed logs between 1758 and 1770 on land south of present-day Uniontown, the Gaddis Homestead is a one-room log house about 26 feet by 20 feet, one and a half stories high, with a gable-end cooking fireplace and a half-story room above. An addition on the north end and a west porch, shown in photographs from 1900, had been removed by the 1920s, leaving only a chimney that was later lost as well. The house was home to Thomas Gaddis, his wife, and their eight children, and it served as a local settlers' fort during the Revolutionary War period. Gaddis held a colonel's commission in the Virginia militia and is described as leading local defense and campaigning against Native American groups in 1778. Later he was involved in the Whiskey Rebellion excise protests, was prosecuted in Philadelphia in 1795, and was found guilty of a misdemeanor for raising a liberty pole. The house is regarded as the oldest building in Fayette County.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Fair condition; original site; ends clad in rolled asphalt siding and roof in rolled asphalt roofing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.530285-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/74001782.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001782/858d61e520-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001782/858d61e520-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jet Lowe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Gaddis_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jet Lowe</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Gaddis_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998418","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Gaddis","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5471190"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fayette-county/gaddis-thomas-homestead-74001782/"}