{"nrhp_refnum":"78002475","name":"Packwood House-American Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"10 Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lewisburg","county":"Union County","state":"PA","lat":40.96638074300006,"lon":-76.88206810599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-09-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story gable-roofed hotel building on the corner of Market Street in Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania, originating as a small two-story log structure around 1813 and enlarged around 1866. It later served as a museum.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building has served the community of Lewisburg as a public house and hotel since the early days of the town, and that its growth and style reflect housing development in Lewisburg from its founding. It also notes its use as a tavern and hotel serving ferry, canal and wagon trade, and its later role as a museum of the owners' collections.","narrative":"On the corner of Market Street in Lewisburg, this three-story gable-roofed building began around 1813 as a small two-story log house owned by Andrew Shearer, a weaver. Shortly after, it became a public house serving ferry and canal boat travellers on the Susquehanna. In about 1866, Adam Weidensaul enlarged it with a frame third story, a longer Market Street front and a two-story rear addition, and renamed it the American Hotel, which catered to the wagon and rail trade of the late 1800s. Later it was an apartment house. Edith Kelly Featherston and her husband, an engineer who worked on TVA construction, bought it in 1936 and filled it with furniture, textiles, oriental rugs and paintings. After her death in 1972, it became a museum run by the Packwood Foundation. The building is valued for its long continuous use as a public house and for the way its growth shows the development of Lewisburg housing from the town's founding.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a museum since 1972, operating on a five-day week schedule.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.356441-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002475.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002475/bca58e9f02-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002475/bca58e9f02-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Packwood_House_Lewisburg_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:Packwood_House_Lewisburg_PA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"04000759","name":"Lewisburg Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/lewisburg-historic-district-04000759/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996244","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packwood_House-American_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7123056"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/union-county/packwood-house-american-hotel-78002475/"}