{"nrhp_refnum":"79000239","name":"Peters House","other_names":["Corner House Antique Store"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"U.S. 209","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bushkill","county":"Pike County","state":"PA","lat":41.093375223000066,"lon":-75.00188019299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-08-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame house in the village of Bushkill, Pike County, Pennsylvania, built in two sections: an earlier section dating from ca. 1746 and a 1943 addition with an attached garage, set on a fieldstone foundation with wood siding.","why_significant":"The 1746 section is described as the oldest house still standing in Bushkill and as a well-preserved example of a mid-18th century frame house on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River. The house is also tied to the Peters family, whose tavern, store, gristmill and later hotel helped shape Bushkill as a service center for river farms and then a tourist village.","narrative":"Along the River Road in Bushkill, Pike County, stands a two-story frame house whose earlier section dates from about 1746, making it the oldest surviving house in the village. A 1943 wing with an attached garage was built over the foundation of an old commercial ice house. The original section keeps nine-over-six and six-over-six windows without parting beads, two brick chimneys probably original to the house, and a great deal of original interior detailing. The Peters family came to Bushkill after 1819 and ran a tavern, a general store and the local gristmill. Charles R. Peters replaced the original tavern in 1860 with a larger building known as the Bushkill Hotel, which his sons later expanded to hold about seventy-five guests. The house is significant as one of the best-preserved mid-18th century frame houses in the area and as a record of the village's social and economic history.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1746-1943","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Good condition as recorded on the form; the 1943 addition is described as an intrusion on the integrity of the whole structure.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.403685-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79000239.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000239/4515ee6b0a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000239/4515ee6b0a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"National Park Service","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peters_House_DWG_NPS.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">National Park Service</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peters_House_DWG_NPS.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994847","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peters_House_(Milford,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7178132"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/pike-county/peters-house-79000239/"}