{"nrhp_refnum":"78002423","name":"Biever House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"49 S. White Oak St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Annville","county":"Lebanon County","state":"PA","lat":40.32823121600006,"lon":-76.51522215699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-02-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-bay stone house in Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, built in 1814 in the Georgian style, with a mid-19th-century stone addition at its northwest corner.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an excellent example of the rural Georgian style and displays notable craftsmanship in its main doorway. Its extensive pick-work decoration on doorways, cornice and window frames is said to set it apart, and it is described as one of three stone houses in the community with extensive pick work. The Biever family was also among the leading families of Annville, and John D. Biever held several political offices.","narrative":"Built in 1814 in Annville, Lebanon County, the Biever House is a five-bay stone dwelling in the Georgian style, with quoined corners and a main doorway featuring a broken pediment, reeded pilasters and a sunburst transom. Its surfaces are decorated with pick work, a punched geometric technique used on the door panels, cornice, dormers and an attic fan window with a swag motif. A two-story stone addition was built at the northwest corner in the mid-nineteenth century, and a small brick summer kitchen stands to the north. The Biever family arrived in Annville around 1800 and became one of its leading families. John D. Biever, born 1812, held several political offices and ran a large tanning operation south of the house. The house is regarded as a rural example of Georgian design and as one of three stone houses in the community with extensive pick work. Two corner cupboards in the front parlors survive from the original interior.","period_of_significance":"1814","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"The house is described as well maintained and in good condition; it has been converted into three apartments.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.064788-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002423.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002423/a0a28e6d7d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002423/a0a28e6d7d-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biever_Annville_LebCo_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:Biever_Annville_LebCo_PA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79002285","name":"Annville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/annville-historic-district-79002285/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994529","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biever_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4904692"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lebanon-county/biever-house-78002423/"}