{"nrhp_refnum":"78002349","name":"Old Dry Road","other_names":["Staudt Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3 mi. (4.8 km) NW of Wernersville on Highland Rd., Lower Heidelberg Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wernersville","county":"Berks County","state":"PA","lat":40.37395195800008,"lon":-76.05790571799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-01-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Agriculture","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Staudt farm, also called the Old Dry Road Farm, is a log-built Pennsylvania Dutch farmstead in a stream valley near Wernersville in Berks County, Pennsylvania. It includes a late 18th century log speicher, a log house of the 18th century, a stone smoke house, a corn crib, a pig sty and a bank barn dated 1901.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm preserves the characteristics of the Pennsylvania Dutch farmstead and its outbuildings, including a speicher that combined food storage with a spring house. It also cites the farm's intact traditional field, orchard, meadow and woodland pattern along the original settlement road, and its value for agricultural and educational use.","narrative":"Near Wernersville in Berks County, the Staudt farmstead lies in a stream valley along the Tulpehocken Creek, reached by a lane about 2800 feet long from Highland Road. The complex includes a late 18th century log speicher built over a spring, a two-and-a-half story log house with an 18th century core, a stone smoke house, a corn crib, a pig sty and a bank barn dated 1901. The speicher was a multi-purpose outbuilding for keeping grain, cheese, meat and valuables, with a cool spring room below, a drying area on the second floor and a dry storage loft above. The farm is regarded as an intact example of the Pennsylvania Dutch farmstead, with its original buildings, orchard, meadow and fields still in their traditional positions. Its architectural and cultural value rests on the speicher and the preserved landscape, which together show farm practices from the 18th and 19th centuries.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Phillip Hase (1744)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The farm is to be preserved under a lease arrangement and restored as funds become available.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.450257-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002349.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002349/057a487443-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002349/057a487443-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OLD_DRY_ROAD_(FARM)_WERNERSVILLE,_BERKS_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OLD_DRY_ROAD_(FARM)_WERNERSVILLE,_BERKS_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998624","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Dry_Road","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7083875"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/berks-county/old-dry-road-78002349/"}