{"nrhp_refnum":"79002223","name":"Ogden House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"530 Cedar Lane","address_restricted":false,"city":"Swarthmore","county":"Delaware County","state":"PA","lat":39.911488063000036,"lon":-75.35062554599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-11-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story stone farmhouse at 530 Cedar Lane in Swarthmore, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, on high ground in the northwest corner of the borough. The northwest half was completed in 1736 and a southwest addition followed a few years later.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a well-preserved example of the substantial farm dwellings of southeastern Pennsylvania in the first half of the eighteenth century. It is also linked to the Maddock and Ogden families, who were leading landowners, farmers and members of the Springfield Meeting, making the house a focal point for social, economic and religious activity in the area.","narrative":"Built of native stone on high ground in Swarthmore, the Ogden House is a three-story dwelling whose northwest half was finished in 1736, with a southwest addition a few years later. Its double-pitched cedar-shingled roof is carried on two massive stone chimneys, and the walls combine dressed and rubble stone. A carved date on the west chimney fixes the early construction. John Maddock is named as builder. The house passed through the Maddock family and then to the Ogdens, who owned and occupied it from 1804 to 1923. They were substantial landowners and farmers in Springfield Township, and John Ogden was among the directors of Swarthmore College when it was incorporated in 1864. Members of the family also ran a cotton factory, an edged-tool mill and a general store. The house is valued for preserving early eighteenth-century farmhouse form and interior woodwork, including deep windows, original door trim, chair rails and mantels, and for its ties to local families and industry.","period_of_significance":"c. 1736","architect_builder":"John Maddock","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; the document describes the interior as largely retaining its early character with only slight alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.347857-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002223.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002223/44d2280262-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002223/44d2280262-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Abby Norling-Ruggles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ogden_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Abby Norling-Ruggles</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:Ogden_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998327","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden_House_(Swarthmore,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7079921"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/delaware-county/ogden-house-79002223/"}