{"nrhp_refnum":"77001149","name":"Huston, Abram, House and Carriage House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"53 S. 1st Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Coatesville","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":39.98189686500007,"lon":-75.82206015699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Abram Huston House and Carriage House is an estate in Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, on about 3.1 acres, now used for municipal purposes as Coatesville City Hall and a police station. The main house and L-shaped carriage house were built in 1889.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an early important work of the Philadelphia firm Cope and Stewardson, showing the massing, proportion and detail that later became hallmarks of the firm, and that it is a high point in the history of the locally prominent Huston ironmaster family. It also argues that the house's setting across from the Lukens Steel plant visually symbolizes the ironmaster's role.","narrative":"Built in 1889 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, the Abram Huston House and Carriage House sits on about 3.1 acres of park-like grounds planted with imported trees and flowers. The Philadelphia firm Cope and Stewardson designed the estate for Abram Huston, head of the family that owned the Lukens Iron and Steel Company, after he took control of the company in 1889. The main house is built of coursed stone with gabled and hipped roofs, upturned eaves and small hooded dormers, and its interior centers on a reception hall with a dramatic staircase and carved fireplace. The carriage house is also of coursed stone, with a two-story conical-roofed tower at the inside angle of the L. The estate is regarded as an early work by the firm, made just after its Radnor Hall at Bryn Mawr College, and it is significant for its design and for its place within the Huston family's industrial history, facing the steel plant across the street. It has been used by the city since then.","period_of_significance":"1889","architect_builder":"Cope & Stewardson","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Used for municipal purposes for about forty years; the main house serves as city hall and the carriage house as police station.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:31.034403-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/77001149.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001149/ddd342c16c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001149/ddd342c16c-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graystone.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graystone.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"87000667","name":"Coatesville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/coatesville-historic-district-87000667/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995081","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Huston_House_and_Carriage_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4669361"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/huston-abram-house-and-carriage-house-77001149/"}