{"nrhp_refnum":"76001609","name":"Leedom, David, Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Newtown off Richboro Rd., Newtown Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newtown","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.22194697500004,"lon":-74.95659593299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-01-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The David Leedom Farm is a stone and frame farmstead in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, centred on a stone farmhouse built in several stages from the late 18th century, with a cluster of early 19th-century outbuildings and a large barn.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is significant chiefly because Edward Hicks painted it in 1849, one of four Newtown farmscapes by him. The house is also presented as an excellent, typical example of a Bucks County stone farmhouse, and the farm was a showplace and home of prosperous Twining and Leedom family farmers and community leaders.","narrative":"Stone farmhouse in Newtown Township, Bucks County, built in stages from the late 18th century, with a one-room stone section, a three-storey stone mansion section datestoned 1802, and a later two-storey frame addition at the west end. Beside it stands a group of early 19th-century outbuildings, including a fieldstone saltbox carriage house, a spring house, a chicken house and a large vertical-board barn. The property is known as Pleasant Retreat and was once one of the showplaces of the Newtown area under the Twining and Leedom families. Its main importance lies in the American primitive painter Edward Hicks, who painted the farm in 1849; he had lived there for ten years as the foster son of Elizabeth and David Twining. The painting is now held by the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection. Apart from that association, the farmhouse is regarded as a good representative of the Bucks County stone farmhouse in both materials and form.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The document states the structure still stands relatively unchanged from its original appearance; no current use is given.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.214028-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/76001609.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001609/25a17f9306-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001609/25a17f9306-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Leedom_Farm_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Shuvaev</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Leedom_Farm_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996775","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Leedom_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5236458"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/leedom-david-farm-76001609/"}