{"nrhp_refnum":"79002203","name":"Winings, Jacob, House and Clover Mill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Phoenixville on James Mill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Phoenixville","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":40.15031638100004,"lon":-75.76419242299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-08-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A late 18th-century random fieldstone farmhouse with a later stone addition, and a small stucco-over-stone clover mill, located in Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, on the French Creek mill seat.","why_significant":"The nomination describes the house as a well preserved example of a typical Chester County farmhouse of the late 18th century, and notes its growth pattern is common among 18th century farmhouses in the area. It also cites local tradition that the house served as a hospital for wounded Continental soldiers and that the property held mill buildings, including a surviving clover mill, due to its mill seat on French Creek.","narrative":"Random fieldstone farmhouse in Phoenixville, Chester County, built in the late eighteenth century, with a two-and-a-half-story original section three bays wide and two bays deep under a gable roof with a west gable-end stone chimney. Jacob Winings, an ironmaster, bought the property in 1783 from Thomas Rutter and Samuel Potts. Local tradition holds that the house predates that sale and served as a hospital for wounded Continental soldiers. A tax assessment of 1796 records a large stone house valued at 45 pounds under the name Jacob Winands. The house has an addition on the east gable end, built of coursed stone with its own separate entrance. Because of its position on French Creek, the property held various mill buildings over time, and a small stucco-over-stone clover mill survives across James Mill Road. An 1825 advertisement lists a grist mill and a sawmill on the site. The house is regarded as a well preserved example of a typical Chester County farmhouse and exemplifies a pattern of growth common to the area's eighteenth-century farmhouses.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The original and additional house are described as in excellent condition.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.45844-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002203.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002203/07c66f5e45-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002203/07c66f5e45-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Choess","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_Winings_House_Front.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Choess</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_Winings_House_Front.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997576","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Winings_House_and_Clover_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6119468"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/winings-jacob-house-and-clover-mill-79002203/"}