{"nrhp_refnum":"78002372","name":"Strickland-Roberts Homestead","other_names":["Bryncoed Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3 mi. (4.8 km) S of Kimberton on St. Matthews Rd., West Vincent Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kimberton","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":40.122272305000024,"lon":-75.63466386799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-01-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Law","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead in Kimberton, Chester County, Pennsylvania, consisting of a plastered stone farmhouse renovated and expanded in 1929, a large stone bank barn, and several small stone outbuildings. The house's original two-section stone core is believed to date from the early 1800s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is significant for its long association with Owen J. Roberts, an attorney and law professor who later served as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and for its architecture as an early stone house adapted and added to over successive generations. The house is described as having remained substantially intact since the early 1800s.","narrative":"Set on a gentle bank in Kimberton, Chester County, this farmstead centres on a stone farmhouse built in two sections in the early 1800s, probably by William Strickland, who was taxed for a log house on the site in 1798. The stone core is three bays wide and was extended to five bays soon after construction. In 1873 William Friday built the stone bank barn, which has a frame forebay on conical stone piers facing a walled courtyard. Owen J. Roberts, a Philadelphia lawyer and University of Pennsylvania law professor, bought the property in 1927 and added a large random fieldstone wing in 1929 to plans by R. Broghard Oakie without disturbing the original dwelling. Roberts was later one of the prosecutors in the Teapot Dome oil scandal cases, chaired a commission on the Pearl Harbor attack, and sat on the Supreme Court from 1930. The property is valued for its association with him and for the way the house grew through successive owners.","period_of_significance":"c. 1800","architect_builder":"R. Broghard Oakie (architect, 1929 addition); William Friday (barn, 1873)","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 17:11:30.052163-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002372.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002372/a7c26d3739-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002372/a7c26d3739-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strickland_Roberts_Chesco.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strickland_Roberts_Chesco.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996028","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strickland-Roberts_Homestead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7623587"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/strickland-roberts-homestead-78002372/"}