{"nrhp_refnum":"75001607","name":"Shields, David, House","other_names":["Newington"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Shields Lane","address_restricted":false,"city":"Edgeworth","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.55708462600006,"lon":-80.19980280299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick house in Edgeworth, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, built in two phases: an earlier three-bay section dating from 1816 and a larger five-bay center-hall house added after 1823, set on about eleven acres of grounds and gardens.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare surviving example of an estate of its kind in the Pittsburgh area, with a fine filigree cast-iron veranda, Federal-period details, and landscape grounds attributed to Samuel Parsons and a formal garden attributed to Bryant Fleming. It also links the house to David Shields, whose father-in-law Daniel Leet received the land as payment for Revolutionary War service.","narrative":"Built in 1816 by David Shields, this brick house in Edgeworth began as a three-bay, two-and-a-half-story section with a center hall and gable-end chimney. Shields and his wife occupied it until 1823, when a larger five-bay, two-and-a-half-story center-hall brick house was joined to it. The main house has Federal details, including flush stone lintels and an entrance with side lights and an elliptical panel, along with a fine filigree cast-iron veranda on the west side. Around 1900 a lunette window was added to the gable facing Beaver Road. Shields was a factor for the Economy Settlement farther down the Ohio River, and the land came from his father-in-law, Daniel Leet, a Revolutionary War major. The grounds, laid out in the English Romantic manner, are regarded as rare for the Pittsburgh area, where estates of this kind were uncommon in the nineteenth century.","period_of_significance":"1816-1823","architect_builder":"David Shields (builder)","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Modernized and thoroughly repaired in 1959; the description states it is in excellent condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.320919-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/75001607.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001607/e571a0b2c8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001607/e571a0b2c8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lee Paxton","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DavidShieldsHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Paxton</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:DavidShieldsHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995415","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shields_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5239740"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/shields-david-house-75001607/"}