{"nrhp_refnum":"77001127","name":"James, Morgan, Homestead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW of New Britain on Ferry Rd., New Britain Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Britain","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.30529588200005,"lon":-75.20083998199993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-12-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A fieldstone farmhouse with an attached outside kitchen and smokehouse and a stone bank barn, forming the Morgan James Homestead in New Britain Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The original house is dated circa 1783 and a major addition was built around 1840.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the homestead is tied to the pioneer James family, who influenced early New Britain Township. It is also presented as a well-preserved example of a Federal Period fieldstone farmhouse and Pennsylvania bank barn, built by a Revolutionary War veteran, with hand-hewn and mortised construction.","narrative":"Built around 1783 in New Britain Township, Bucks County, the Morgan James Homestead is a group of three stone buildings: a two-story fieldstone farmhouse, an attached one-story kitchen and smokehouse, and a bank barn measuring 30 by 60 feet. Morgan James, a Revolutionary War veteran who served in the Washington Life Guards and fought at Trenton and Germantown, returned to New Britain in 1783 and built the house after marrying his cousin Margaret. A three-story stone addition on the south side was added around 1840. The buildings use hand-hewn timbers joined with mortise-and-pin construction, and the barn has built-in ladders to its hay mows. The James family helped establish New Britain Township in 1723. The homestead is valued for its tie to that family and as a largely unaltered example of late eighteenth-century stone construction in eastern Pennsylvania.","period_of_significance":"Circa 1783, 1843","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal Period; Pennsylvania bank barn","criteria":[],"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 17:11:31.115304-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/77001127.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001127/77ba1c5d2c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001127/77ba1c5d2c-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Hshuvaeva","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morgan_James_Homestead.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Hshuvaeva</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:Morgan_James_Homestead.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996696","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_James_Homestead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6911717"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/james-morgan-homestead-77001127/"}