{"nrhp_refnum":"76001636","name":"Grange, The","other_names":["Maen-Coch,Clifton Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Grove Pl.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Haverford","county":"Delaware County","state":"PA","lat":39.97591161300005,"lon":-75.28431589399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-01-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Grange is a country house on a 10-acre tract in Haverford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, with associated gardens and outbuildings. The house was built in stages from the mid-1700s, with a major remodeling in 1850.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is significant for its associations with prominent statesmen and social figures who gathered there, for its Victorian Gothic Revival remodeling of the pre-Civil War period, and for its old and extensive gardens and woodland. It states that the gardens have been tended for over 200 years and record a unique history of landscape taste.","narrative":"Set on a 10-acre tract in Haverford, Pennsylvania, the Grange began as a modest dwelling built after Henry Lewis, a Welsh Quaker, acquired the land from William Penn in 1683. Captain John Willcox erected a larger Georgian house in 1750, and Captain Charles Cruikshank added a substantial southeast section around 1760 along with terraced walks, greenhouses and a bath house. In 1850 Dr. John Ashurst remodeled the house in Victorian Gothic Revival style, covering the stone with stucco and adding a wraparound veranda and a gable with decorative barge-boards. The property is significant for its gardens, which were laid out in the 1760s and contain formal terraces, specimen trees and a forested walk, and for its gatherings under John Ross, a wealthy merchant and banker, during 1782 to 1800. Visitors then reportedly included George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Lafayette. Its architecture is also regarded as a good example of pre-Civil War Gothic Revival design in America.","period_of_significance":"c.1685, 1760, 1850","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian; Victorian Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The nomination states the Grange has remained much as it was in the Civil War years and that its gardens were restored in 1913 after a brief period of neglect.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.537349-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/76001636.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001636/78eb5b777a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001636/78eb5b777a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown (US government). Original uploader was BillFlis at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GrangeEstate.png\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown (US government). Original uploader was BillFlis at en.wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GrangeEstate.png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995843","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grange_Estate","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5595644"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/delaware-county/grange-the-76001636/"}