{"nrhp_refnum":"78002354","name":"Smith Family Farmstead","other_names":["Riverside"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of New Hope on River Rd., Upper Makefield Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Hope","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.318422815000076,"lon":-74.92722753899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-01-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2½ story stone farmhouse with a gable roof, located south of New Hope on River Road in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with an altered two-story stone outbuilding used as a garage. The house carries a datestone of 1767 in its gable end.","why_significant":"The house is presented as an early, well-preserved Bucks County native stone farmhouse set in an unchanged rural landscape. It is also the birthplace of Oliver Hampton Smith, who later served as a U.S. Senator from Indiana and was known for prosecuting a notable frontier murder case.","narrative":"Built in the mid-1700s, this two-and-a-half-story gable-roofed stone farmhouse near New Hope in Bucks County carries a datestone of 1767 in its gable end. Deeds show a house on the property as early as 1761. The original three-bay section was later joined by a one-bay addition in 1945. Its radiating stone door and window arches, pegged wooden window frames, and six-over-six sash reflect the skill of local stone masons. The house is also the birthplace of Oliver Hampton Smith, who was born in 1794 and later represented Indiana in both the U.S. House and Senate. As a young prosecutor on the Indiana frontier, he won a murder case against four frontiersmen. The farmstead is regarded as a good representative of the Bucks County stone house type, and its rural setting near the Delaware River, with fields and woodland in view, retains much of its 18th-century character.","period_of_significance":"1767","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The document describes the property as in excellent condition with no modern structures in view, but does not state its current use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.196692-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002354.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002354/e27b28828c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002354/e27b28828c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smith_Family_Farmstead,_PA_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:Smith_Family_Farmstead,_PA_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996720","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Family_Farmstead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7545142"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/smith-family-farmstead-78002354/"}