{"nrhp_refnum":"78002390","name":"Cheyney, John, Log Tenant House and Farm","other_names":["Huston,Thomas,Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Station Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cheyney","county":"Delaware County","state":"PA","lat":39.930252299000045,"lon":-75.514232354802,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-11-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead in Cheyney, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, of four buildings on a 16.003-acre property: a part log, part stucco-over-stone residence; a stone and frame barn; a stone and frame outbuilding used as a garage that housed a forge and farm kitchen; and a stone springhouse. The buildings date from c. 1760 to c. 1870.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the log section of the house is a remnant of eighteenth-century farm settlement and tenant housing in southeastern Pennsylvania, and that it is excellently preserved. It states that few log tenant houses from the Direct Tax listings for Thornbury Township remain. It also argues the property reflects changes in farm technology and the history of both the White and Black populations of the area.","narrative":"Four buildings on a 16-acre farmstead near Cheyney, Delaware County, date from about 1760 to 1870. The residence combines a log section, built before 1806, with a stucco-over-stone section erected between 1815 and 1848. The log part measures 13 feet 2 inches by 16 feet 4 inches and has a full cellar. A stone and frame barn, a garage housing a stone forge and an iron-lined farm kitchen, and a stone springhouse complete the group. The property descends from a 1681 Penn land grant to Richard Marsh, and the land was later held by the Cheyney family, who settled in Thornbury Township. Its log tenant house is regarded as an uncommon survivor of the eighteenth-century farm settlement pattern, when Penn grants were divided into farms and worked by tenant labor. Ownership passed through the Huston, Cassidy and Baker families in the nineteenth century, and the group also reflects the lives of Black residents in the township.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular","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 17:11:29.847738-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002390.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002390/ce6da3883f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002390/ce6da3883f-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"User:Smallbones on English Wikipedia.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CheyneyLog2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Smallbones on English Wikipedia.</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CheyneyLog2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995045","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cheyney_Log_Tenant_House_and_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6225918"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/delaware-county/cheyney-john-log-tenant-house-and-farm-78002390/"}