{"nrhp_refnum":"79002206","name":"Everhart, William, Buildings","other_names":["Everhart-Lincoln Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"28 W. Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Chester","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":39.959177716000056,"lon":-75.60541629699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-07-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story, three-bay Federal-style brick commercial building in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, constructed circa 1833 for William Everhart as a commercial building. It is described as a federal style townhouse with a New York type basement level.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its long use by newspapers, most notably the Independent Herald and later the Chester County Times, and for an 1860 biography of Abraham Lincoln printed there. It is also tied to William Everhart, a Revolutionary War soldier and entrepreneur who built many buildings in West Chester and served in Congress.","narrative":"Built around 1833 in West Chester as a three-story brick commercial building, the Everhart Building is a Federal-style townhouse with a New York type basement level. It was constructed for William Everhart, a Revolutionary War veteran and entrepreneur who laid out streets and built many structures in the borough during the 1830s and 1840s. Over its history it housed attorneys, a printer, real estate and insurance firms, and most notably the newspaper Independent Herald, later the Chester County Times. Its newspaper period gives the building its chief importance. In February 1860 the first biography of Abraham Lincoln appeared in the Chester County Times there, sent to be printed by Jesse Fell, a native of West Chester and an Illinois associate of Lincoln. The biography was prepared from Lincoln's own notes and introduced him to the public as a potential presidential candidate. The building remained in the Everhart family until 1905.","period_of_significance":"c. 1833","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"The building is described as well preserved and altered; it has housed several commercial establishments since its construction.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.517832-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002206.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002206/f36dd348d5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002206/f36dd348d5-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Everhart_Buildings_West_Chester_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Everhart_Buildings_West_Chester_PA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"05000096","name":"West Chester Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/west-chester-historic-district-boundary-increase-05000096/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998664","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Everhart_Buildings","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8008711"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/everhart-william-buildings-79002206/"}