{"nrhp_refnum":"78002430","name":"Gibson House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"210 Liberty St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jamestown","county":"Mercer County","state":"PA","lat":41.48471477500004,"lon":-80.43968963899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick house in Jamestown, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, built about 1855 with a hipped roof and central cupola, with a large carriage house behind it. It later served as a restaurant.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the house as one of the most impressive buildings in Jamestown and as the home of Dr. William Gibson, a physician who took part in local railroad, banking, educational and church ventures. It also links the owner to the 1867 Quaker City excursion and to Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad.","narrative":"Built about 1855 of handmade brick in Jamestown, the two-story house is square in plan, with a hipped roof, a central cupola, and a Georgian center-hall plan. Its design mixes Georgian, Greek Revival and Italianate features, including Corinthian columns on the portico, bracketed cornices, and projecting wooden bay windows decorated with relief carving. Interior woodwork is of solid cherry, with carved staircase and plaster cornices with gilt paint. Dr. William Gibson, who settled in Jamestown in 1836, practiced medicine there and was involved in the Pittsburgh and Erie Railroad, the Franklin and Jamestown Railroad, the Jamestown Seminary and the Jamestown Banking Company. He also took part in the 1867 Quaker City excursion, which Mark Twain described in Innocents Abroad. Local tradition holds that Twain based a doctor character in that book on Gibson. The house is regarded as one of the most impressive buildings in Jamestown.","period_of_significance":"circa 1855","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian, Greek Revival, and Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Converted from a residence to a restaurant, with a concrete block kitchen addition and a tavern in the remodeled basement; the carriage house is also used for restaurant purposes.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.649752-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002430.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002430/6163586271-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002430/6163586271-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gibson_House_in_Jamestown.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gibson_House_in_Jamestown.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995951","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_House_(Jamestown,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5559349"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/mercer-county/gibson-house-78002430/"}