{"nrhp_refnum":"78002369","name":"Terracina","other_names":["Huston House,The"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"76 S. 1st Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Coatesville","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":39.98108440000004,"lon":-75.82228462199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Terracina is a two and one half story house in Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, built in 1848 as a wedding present for Isabella Lukens and Dr. Charles Huston. It sits on about 1.75 acres with a stable-shed, a tenant house and other outbuildings.","why_significant":"The house is associated with Dr. Charles Huston and the Lukens Steel Company, which the nomination describes as an important iron and steel enterprise in the community. Architecturally, the nomination says it is a house with well-preserved Gothic Revival details, including carved bargeboards and a diamond-pane lancet window in each gable.","narrative":"Built in 1848 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, this two and one half story house was a wedding gift from ironmaster Rebecca Lukens to her daughter Isabella and her husband, Dr. Charles Huston. Its cross-gable roof, stucco-covered stone walls, intricately carved bargeboards and full-length hipped porch with cast iron supports show Gothic Revival influence, and the nomination regards its Gothic details as unusually well preserved. Dr. Huston left medical practice in Philadelphia to run the family mill, and the house became a meeting place for the early organizational gatherings and board meetings of the company that became Lukens Iron and Steel Company in 1890. It later passed to grandson Stewart Huston, a metallurgist and long-serving company vice-president, who acquired it in 1935. The property is significant for its link to the early development of the Lukens steel enterprise and for its intact Gothic Revival architecture.","period_of_significance":"1848","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","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 17:11:30.651477-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002369.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002369/382d7ce6a5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002369/382d7ce6a5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terracina_from_NW.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</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:Terracina_from_NW.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/71995079","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracina_(Coatesville,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7703200"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/terracina-78002369/"}