{"nrhp_refnum":"78002414","name":"Abbeville","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1140 Columbia Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.03774910650006,"lon":-76.33485795785404,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Abbeville is a historic house and estate in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with a 1755-6 stone core, a c. 1790 Georgian main house, and 1826 side wings, along with outbuildings on a five-acre property.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the house is significant for its successive stone building campaigns and original interior features, and for its association with Langdon Cheves, a South Carolina congressman and Second Bank of the United States president who named the property Abbeville. It also cites the 1828 Fourth of July celebration held there and later ownership by the Coleman family and the Abbeville Institute school.","narrative":"Abbeville is a stone house on a five-acre site near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Its oldest section, a two-story stone structure about twenty by seventeen feet, dates to 1755 or 1756. A larger Georgian main house of about forty-five feet square was added around 1790, and two one-story side wings followed in 1826. The house retains original marble fireplaces, woodwork, and hardware, along with a hand-carved staircase and hand-blown window glass. Its owners during the early nineteenth century included Langdon Cheves, a South Carolina congressman and second president of the Second Bank of the United States, who gave the property its name after his birthplace. On July 4, 1828, a celebration with a parade and banquet was held on the grounds, and James Buchanan read the Declaration of Independence there. Later, the Abbeville Institute, a boys' school, operated on the property from 1835.","period_of_significance":"1755-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"The interior is described as in excellent condition, and the present owners furnish it in eighteenth and nineteenth century style.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:28.985185-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002414.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002414/172a516e01-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002414/172a516e01-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbeville_LanCo_PA.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:Abbeville_LanCo_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996103","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbeville_(Lancaster,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4663940"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/abbeville-78002414/"}