{"nrhp_refnum":"76001629","name":"Hartman, George, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of Phoenixville on Church Rd., East Pikeland Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Phoenixville","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":40.10385039500005,"lon":-75.59190285799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-03-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story random fieldstone farmhouse with a later frame north addition, on a farm near Phoenixville in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The house, with its barn, springhouse and stone walls, forms the core of the Larchwood Farm complex.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is valuable as a record of changing lifestyles as a family's prosperity grew in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, evolving from a two-room structure to a six-room house with formal balance. It also points to the Hartman family's long record of public service, including a Revolutionary War veteran who became county sheriff and a son who later served as Chester County Recorder of Deeds.","narrative":"Built of random fieldstone with walls about twenty inches thick, the George Hartman House sits on a farm near Phoenixville in Chester County, Pennsylvania. George Hartman probably built the original two-and-a-half-story house between about 1790 and 1801, with one room per floor and an inside chimney typical of German settlers in the area. A datestone marks an 1806 fieldstone addition by George and Mary Elizabeth Hartman, which made the house center-hall in plan and turned its front to the south. A frame north addition followed in the late 1930s. The house is valued for what it shows about a growing family's prosperity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Hartman family also gave long public service, and George Hartman later served as Chester County sheriff.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1750-1906","architect_builder":"George Hartman (builder, per the form's description of the original house)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.708776-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/76001629.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001629/fd55569b8d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001629/fd55569b8d-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Hartman_Chesco.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:George_Hartman_Chesco.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997594","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hartman_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5540287"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/hartman-george-house-76001629/"}