{"nrhp_refnum":"79000242","name":"Brodhead Farm","other_names":["Wheat Plains"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NE of Bushkill on U.S. 209","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bushkill","county":"Pike County","state":"PA","lat":41.149918410000055,"lon":-74.91953204699996,"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 at the base of a steep ridge near U.S. 209 in Bushkill, Pike County, Pennsylvania, consisting of a large farmhouse, several barns and outbuildings overlooking broad river fields. The house dates from the late 18th or early 19th century.","why_significant":"The farm is significant as the homestead of one of the earliest families to settle on the river flats of the Pennsylvania side of the Upper Delaware Valley, and as one of the most continuously prosperous farms in the area. The farmhouse's successive additions are regarded as an expression of changing domestic architectural traditions in the region.","narrative":"Set at the foot of a steep ridge near U.S. 209 in Bushkill, Pike County, the Brodhead farm complex centres on a large two-and-a-half-storey frame farmhouse with clapboard siding and a slate roof. The house began in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, and its earliest portion may be the remains of a log structure. Garret Brodhead, a veteran of the American Revolution, settled the land in the 1770s, acquiring more than 370 acres along the Delaware River. The family's prosperity allowed them to enlarge the house repeatedly, so it now shows Dutch-style flared eaves, an exposed stone chimney back, Victorian and later dormers, and a twentieth-century porch. The property stayed in Brodhead hands until 1871, when it passed to Cornelius Swartwood, and it returned to the family within twenty-three years. The farm is regarded as an unusually well-preserved example of prosperous riverside agricultural estates in the valley.","period_of_significance":"1700-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The farm is described as a working farm.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.179567-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79000242.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000242/30b51b2b44-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000242/30b51b2b44-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"National Park Service","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brodhead_Farm_Wheat_Plains_House_NPS.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">National Park Service</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brodhead_Farm_Wheat_Plains_House_NPS.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994857","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodhead_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4972991"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/pike-county/brodhead-farm-79000242/"}