{"nrhp_refnum":"79002200","name":"Springton Manor Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"S of Glenmoore at Springton and Creek Rds., Wallace Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Glenmoore","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":40.071671598500075,"lon":-75.77709145468944,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-08-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Conservation","Exploration/Settlement","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 260-acre working farm complex in Wallace Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, near Glenmoore, with a main house, several barns and sixteen or more outbuildings. Its buildings date from the early 1700s to 1912.","why_significant":"The farm has been worked continuously since the early 1700s and keeps its original stone-walled fields. Its outbuildings trace the development of a large farm over two centuries. The nomination also cites the Rose Cottage stone dwelling, the Bartol family's conservation of botanical specimens, and the political career of owner Abraham R. McIlvaine.","narrative":"A 260-acre working farm in Wallace Township, near Glenmoore in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with a manor house, stone and frame barns and more than fifteen outbuildings. Its land was part of a 1742 survey for Robert McConaghey, who built the stone field fences that still enclose the fields. The farm has been worked continuously since the early 1700s. Its buildings range from a stone leanto dated 1711 and the Rose Cottage addition of about 1745 to a Federal-period core of about 1836 that George E. Bartol expanded in 1887 in Queen Anne style. Wilson Eyre and McIlvaine carried out further alterations in 1912. The stone bank barn, dated to about 1750, is the largest surviving on the property. Abraham R. McIlvaine, owner in the 1830s, served in the Pennsylvania House and in Congress. The Bartol family preserved old roses, boxwoods and twin white oaks. The farm is regarded as an intact resource for studying agricultural history in eastern Pennsylvania.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Wilson Eyre and McIlvaine (architects, 1912 alterations and additions to the manor house)","architectural_style":"Federal (manor house core, c. 1836); Georgian (Rose Cottage addition, c. 1745, and 1912 main entrance of east wing); Queen Anne (1887 alterations)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Rose Cottage has been largely ruined after its main roof and south wall collapsed in 1977 and its north wall collapsed in a later winter; the springhouse is in ruins.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.10481-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002200.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002200/1e86264d32-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002200/1e86264d32-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Springton_Manor_Chesco.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:Springton_Manor_Chesco.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995681","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springton_Manor_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7581209"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/springton-manor-farm-79002200/"}