{"nrhp_refnum":"78002466","name":"O'Hara, John, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"606 Mahantongo St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pottsville","county":"Schuylkill County","state":"PA","lat":40.68292106800004,"lon":-76.19945411999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Literature"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story, three-bay stone townhouse at 606 Mahantongo Street in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, built before 1870 by brewer David C. Yuengling. It is the boyhood home of novelist John O'Hara.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its association with novelist John O'Hara, who grew up there and drew on Pottsville and the house's social setting in much of his fiction. It also cites the building's surviving interior features and its Italianate-style exterior as representative of a prosperous mid-19th-century townhouse.","narrative":"Built before 1870 for the brewer David C. Yuengling, this three-story stone townhouse at 606 Mahantongo Street in Pottsville has a scored smooth facade, a heavily carved overhanging cornice, and a rounded door hood in the Italianate manner. Its interior, now divided into five apartments, keeps a stained glass window, ceramic pictorial tiled walls and a marble chip mosaic floor in the vestibule, a great staircase, and some original woodwork. The house was later the residence of the Frederick G. Yuengling family, who lived there from 1870 until 1913. In 1913 Dr. Patrick O'Hara bought it, and his family settled there in 1916 and remained until 1940. The novelist John O'Hara spent his youth in the house, where he began writing at the dining room table. Its street and neighborhood served as models for the settings of several of his novels, including Gibbsville. It is one of the few surviving places tied to his early life.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["B"],"status_note":"The house is in very good condition and has been altered to accommodate five apartments, while several original interior features remain.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.005592-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002466.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002466/c052bb46b6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002466/c052bb46b6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JOHN_O%27HARA_HOUSE.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JOHN_O%27HARA_HOUSE.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997880","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27Hara_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6250905"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/schuylkill-county/ohara-john-house-78002466/"}