{"nrhp_refnum":"77001157","name":"Mosier, Dr. J. R., Office","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Terrace St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Meadville","county":"Crawford County","state":"PA","lat":41.712734356000055,"lon":-80.22903232199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-06-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A very small one-story frame office building with clapboard siding, built around 1890 and used by rural physician Dr. J. Russell Mosier (1855-1938) in Meadville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was moved about 7 miles in 1975 to a site on the grounds of the Baldwin-Reynolds estate.","why_significant":"The office is regarded as an accurate and intact example of a rural doctor's practice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its furnishings, medicines, instruments and equipment remain in place from the end of Dr. Mosier's practice in 1938. The nomination argues that the contents, rather than the building's architecture, give the property its importance, and that the move did not seriously affect its significance.","narrative":"A small one-story frame office with clapboard siding, built around 1890 in Meadville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, for rural physician Dr. J. Russell Mosier. The building has a false front facade over a gabled roof, and a hood supported by carved brackets shelters its entrances. Its three rooms hold the waiting room, examination room and pharmacy as they were in 1938, when Dr. Mosier ended his practice. The waiting room has chairs, pictures, old maps, calendars and magazines. The examination room contains a combination table and chair, instruments and textbooks. The pharmacy holds drugs in original containers, a mortar and pestle, a hand-cranked telephone and scales. Dr. Mosier, born in Crawford County in 1855 and trained at the University of Maryland, performed the full range of general practice duties. The office is valued as a rare, complete record of early rural medical practice. In 1975 it was moved to protect it from the sale of its original land, and it now stands on a wooded knoll on the grounds of the Baldwin-Reynolds estate.","period_of_significance":"1890-1938","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th century style with false front facade","criteria":[],"status_note":"Moved approximately 7 miles in 1975 to a site on the Baldwin-Reynolds estate grounds after the original land was sold.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.06917-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/77001157.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001157/d6eef7fece-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001157/d6eef7fece-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._J.R._Mosier_Office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._J.R._Mosier_Office.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996450","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._J._R._Mosier_Office","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5304167"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/crawford-county/mosier-dr-j-r-office-77001157/"}