{"nrhp_refnum":"76001619","name":"Miles-Humes House","other_names":["Centre County Library and Historical Museum"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"203 N. Allegheny St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bellefonte","county":"Centre County","state":"PA","lat":40.913359366000066,"lon":-77.77891775599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-10-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story stone house in Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania, at 203 N. Allegheny Street, now used by the Centre County Library and Historical Museum. The original house was built in 1814-16 for Captain Joseph Miles.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house documents how early stone homes in Bellefonte were altered in the late Victorian period to suit changing tastes. It is associated with Captain Joseph Miles, the Potter and Humes families, and the later community library. The 1895-96 remodelling, including moving the house back from the street, is presented as evidence of the town's late 19th-century prosperity.","narrative":"A two-story stone house at 203 North Allegheny Street in Bellefonte, begun in 1814-16 for Captain Joseph Miles, an ironmaster and co-founder of Milesburg. It was built in the Georgian style and set close to the street. Miles later sold it in 1830 to William Wilson Potter, a lawyer elected to Congress in 1836. The house passed to the Humes family, whose members included the banker Edward C. Humes, and in 1935 it was left for a community library. In 1895-96 the house was extensively remodelled in the late Victorian manner: a rear stone ell was added, a two-story polygonal bay and porches were built, and the old house was lifted four feet and moved twelve feet back from the street. Interior features from both periods survive, including marble mantelpieces and pressed-board ceilings. The building is significant as a documented example of how an early stone house was reshaped for changing residential tastes in a 19th-century county seat.","period_of_significance":"1814-present","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal with Georgian Revival elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Now used as a museum and library; the public library collections were to move across the street.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.682359-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/76001619.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001619/1db68a01c9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001619/1db68a01c9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Pubdog (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miles-Humes_House_Aug_10.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Pubdog (talk)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miles-Humes_House_Aug_10.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"77001136","name":"Bellefonte Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/bellefonte-historic-district-77001136/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994606","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles-Humes_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6851291"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/centre-county/miles-humes-house-76001619/"}