{"nrhp_refnum":"78002473","name":"Mulford, Sylvanus, House","other_names":["John Lyons House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"65 Church St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Montrose","county":"Susquehanna County","state":"PA","lat":41.83197338300005,"lon":-75.87586543699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame saltbox house with a stone foundation at the corner of Church and Cherry Streets in Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, with a one-story connecting addition to a two-story frame barn at the rear.","why_significant":"The nomination describes it as a rare Pennsylvania example of a New England saltbox house. It is associated with Reverend Elisha Mulford, author of two early 1800s books, and was built as both a home and a store. The form also notes its long occupation by the Lyons family from 1835.","narrative":"Built in 1818 in Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, this two-story frame house with lapped siding and a stone foundation was constructed by Sylvanus Mulford. Its saltbox form follows New England building traditions, and the house is regarded as a rare example of that type in Pennsylvania. The full-length front porch, supported by four large square columns, appears to date from the original construction. Mulford built the house to serve as both a residence and a store. Early residents included the Reverend Elisha Mulford, author of the books The Nation and The Republic of God, both popular in the early 1800s. In 1835 Mulford moved his business to Public Avenue and sold the house to Jesse Lyons, whose family lived there until 1939. The house has fifteen rooms, original flooring and hardware, and a connected two-story frame barn thought to date from 1856. It was surveyed by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937.","period_of_significance":"1818","architect_builder":"Sylvanus Mulford","architectural_style":"Saltbox","criteria":["C"],"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 17:11:29.225295-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002473.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002473/e088289720-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002473/e088289720-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Stanley Jones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sylvanus_Mulford_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanley Jones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sylvanus_Mulford_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996606","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvanus_Mulford_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7660726"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/susquehanna-county/mulford-sylvanus-house-78002473/"}