{"nrhp_refnum":"75001657","name":"Antes, Henry, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NE of Pottstown on Colonial Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pottstown","county":"Montgomery County","state":"PA","lat":40.29225729950005,"lon":-75.54020480661825,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-05-12","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1992-04-27","areas_of_significance":["Education","Religion","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Henry Antes House is a 2½ story stucco-over-stone dwelling in Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, built ca. 1720 with a later addition ca. 1745. It is a typical example of early Pennsylvania German architecture.","why_significant":"The house is significant as a fine example of early Pennsylvania German architecture, with its three-room floor plan, central open hearth fireplace, and early insulation and smoke-control features. It is also tied to Henry Antes, a millwright and carpenter who worked on Moravian industrial buildings, and to the use of the house as a Moravian boys' school in the 1740s.","narrative":"Built around 1720 as a 2½ story stucco-over-stone house in Pottstown, Montgomery County, the Henry Antes House is a typical example of early Pennsylvania German building. Its three-room plan has a central open hearth fireplace, and a rauchkanal, an early smoke channel that predates the enclosed flue, survives on the fireplace wall. A later addition of about 1745 was made to accommodate a boys' school. Antes, described as a wheelwright, millwright and carpenter, helped build the Crefeld paper mill in 1730 and worked on several industrial buildings in the Bethlehem Moravian complex. In 1745 the Moravian community at Bethlehem used the house as a school for boys, where English was taught and the records list White, Indian and Negro pupils. The house is regarded as a fine example of early Pennsylvania German architecture, and its floor plan, fireplace, and insulation methods are the features that make it important.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Pennsylvania German architecture","criteria":[],"status_note":"Fair condition and altered; the Goschenhoppen Historians are restoring the house, with plans to reinstall the central chimney and open-hearth fireplace.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.840985-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/75001657.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001657/7c0f832dc0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001657/7c0f832dc0-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antes_House_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:Antes_House_Montco_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997866","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Antes_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5717331"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montgomery-county/antes-henry-house-75001657/"}