{"nrhp_refnum":"79002226","name":"Cook, Anthony Wayne, Mansion","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"River Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cooksburg","county":"Forest County","state":"PA","lat":41.33128952200005,"lon":-79.20521699344741,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Queen Anne style frame mansion with a hipped roof, set in a large landscaped yard at Cooksburg in Forest County, Pennsylvania, with a two-story carriage house and associated outbuildings. It was built for the Cook family, who dominated the regional lumber industry.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the mansion is significant for its direct association with the Cook family's lumber business and their role in regional politics and economy in the 19th and 20th centuries. Its Queen Anne massing, scale, detailing, landscaping and outbuilding complex are described as unusually elaborate for the small community. The family is also credited with helping shift local resource policy from exploitation toward conservation.","narrative":"Built around 1880 at Cooksburg in Forest County, Pennsylvania, the Anthony Wayne Cook Mansion is a Queen Anne style frame house with a hipped roof, a two-story tower, many dormers, a front gable and a one-story porch. Decorative shingles appear on the tower and gable ends, and four articulated chimneys add to its elaborate character. A two-story frame carriage house stands nearby, with two cupolas, an icehouse and chicken coops to the rear. The mansion sits in a large landscaped yard entered through three sets of stone gates. Cook family lumbering built the community, which grew from a sawmill founded by John Cook on land near the mouth of Tom's Creek on the Clarion River. Anthony Wayne Cook was president of the family's A. Cook Sons Company after 1891. The house is regarded as the largest and most elaborate in the community and was the hub of the family business during its boom years. Its wider significance also rests on the family's later role in conserving timber, which led to the Cook Forest State Park.","period_of_significance":"1880","architect_builder":"Builder Anthony Wayne Cook","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"The mansion is being restored by heirs of Anthony Wayne Cook.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.201306-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002226.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002226/892a678645-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002226/892a678645-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anthony_Wayne_Cook_Mansion_and_estate.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anthony_Wayne_Cook_Mansion_and_estate.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995144","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Wayne_Cook_Mansion","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4773689"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/forest-county/cook-anthony-wayne-mansion-79002226/"}