{"nrhp_refnum":"79000240","name":"Nyce Farm","other_names":["Van Gordon House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW of Bushkill on U.S. 209","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bushkill","county":"Pike County","state":"PA","lat":41.140016487000025,"lon":-74.93026824199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-07-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex of seven buildings at the base of a wooded ridge about a quarter mile back from the Delaware River, in Pike County, Pennsylvania, seven miles north of Bushkill. It centers on a large early 19th-century frame farmhouse and includes a late 18th-century stone tenant house and several barns and outbuildings.","why_significant":"The complex is argued to be a link in the agricultural development of the Pennsylvania river bottom lands of the Upper Delaware Valley. Its fertile river-flat land, early occupancy and adaptation to mechanized farming after the Civil War allowed its owners to remain prosperous while much of the area's agriculture declined. It is described as one of the best preserved such tracts in terms of historic and architectural integrity.","narrative":"Nyce Farm is a complex of seven buildings on the Pennsylvania side of the Upper Delaware River, set at the foot of a steep wooded ridge about a quarter mile from the water. Jacobus Van Gordon, a Revolutionary War soldier, acquired part of the tract in the 1770s and built a small stone cabin at the base of the ridge. In the early 19th century George Nyce acquired the property and built the large, five-bay center hall farmhouse that now anchors the group. Nyce introduced advanced equipment, including a threshing machine, and built a slate-roofed barn in the early 1860s. The farm was a stage stop on the River Road between Stroudsburg and Milford and remained in the Nyce family until 1948. It is regarded as a well-preserved example of the prosperous river-bottom farming that developed in the Upper Delaware Valley.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal Period farmhouse (house resembles 18th century New England houses; conventional center hall type)","criteria":[],"status_note":"The farm is described as a working farm, with the outbuildings in generally good condition and the Tenant House in generally poor condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.301841-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79000240.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000240/e6f6a423bb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000240/e6f6a423bb-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"George Eisenman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Nyce_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">George Eisenman</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Nyce_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994855","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyce_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7070972"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/pike-county/nyce-farm-79000240/"}