{"nrhp_refnum":"77001173","name":"Kemmerer House","other_names":["Irongate","Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Russell L. Pellett"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3 Iroquois St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Emmaus","county":"Lehigh County","state":"PA","lat":40.54870922300006,"lon":-75.50036566199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-09-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A sizable brick farmhouse in Emmaus, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, dating from about 1840-1850, with a summer kitchen wing and a Pennsylvania-German forebay barn on the same farmstead.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a fine example of a 19th-century farmstead whose proportion and plan reflect earlier Georgian prototypes. It is said to reflect the arrival of cultural tastes into the Lehigh farming area, and the house, kitchen wing and barn together are described as a handsome complex that exemplifies 19th-century Lehigh County farm life.","narrative":"Built of brick in about 1840-1850, this sizable farmhouse in Emmaus, Lehigh County, has a five-bay southern facade and a central side-lighted entrance door with a transom. It retains features of houses from two generations earlier, and its interior evidence, including ceiling heights and fireplace types, places the original construction before the Civil War. An 18th-century root cellar beneath the basement suggests the present house replaced an earlier dwelling on the same stone foundations. The house stands with a detached summer kitchen wing and a Pennsylvania-German forebay barn on a fenced yard. Frederick X. Camerer was the original settler of the Kemmerer Homestead, and Henry Walter Kemmerer is thought to have built the main house around the time of his father's death in 1851. The property is significant as a farm complex that shows the character of 19th-century Lehigh County farming, with Georgian-derived proportions carried into the later period.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"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 17:11:29.219268-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/77001173.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001173/503df9c07a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001173/503df9c07a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kemmerer_House_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Shuvaev</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:Kemmerer_House_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995465","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemmerer_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6386976"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lehigh-county/kemmerer-house-77001173/"}