{"nrhp_refnum":"77001130","name":"Vansant Farmhouse","other_names":["Overlook Valley Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Rushland on Ceder Lane","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rushland","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.27069423200004,"lon":-75.01854913299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-08-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story L-shaped stone farmhouse in Rushland, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with a detached root cellar and a mid-19th-century carriage house nearby. The earlier section dates from 1762 with a 1768 datestone, and a front addition was built around 1820.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an austere, unpretentious example of an 18th-century farm residence. It describes the building as a rare surviving reminder of early farmhouse types, which were often replaced by larger farmsteads. The original stone section and its cooking fireplace are described as intact features of that early type.","narrative":"Stone farmhouse in Rushland, Bucks County, built in two stages: an earlier two-story section dated 1762 and a front addition of about 1820. The datestone \"CLV G R 1768\" is associated with the Vansant family, who settled the site in 1716 after arriving from Holland by way of Long Island, New York. The early section has a single large room on each floor, a stairway on its north wall, and an enormous cooking fireplace opening into a kitchen that was originally set several steps below the main floor with an earthen floor. The newer section, probably built by Jesse Worthington, who bought the property from the Carver family in 1818, is stuccoed stone with two rooms on each floor. The house is valued for its plain 18th-century character and as a rare survivor of early farm residences, many of which were replaced by larger farmsteads. A stone-arched root cellar, a mid-19th-century carriage house, and a barn stand nearby on the five-acre tract.","period_of_significance":"1768","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"A functioning barn is in the area; the form does not otherwise state current use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.363977-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/77001130.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001130/a3bb3ad4f6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001130/a3bb3ad4f6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VANSANT_FARMHOUSE.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</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:VANSANT_FARMHOUSE.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998030","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vansant_Farmhouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7915174"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/vansant-farmhouse-77001130/"}