{"nrhp_refnum":"79002302","name":"Wall House","other_names":["The Ivy"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Wall Park Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Elkins Park","county":"Montgomery County","state":"PA","lat":40.07854092800005,"lon":-75.12839527799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Wall House, also called The Ivy, is a stone house in Elkins Park (formerly Cheltenham vicinity), Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, built in several campaigns beginning in the 1680s. The original two-room stone building is believed to date from 1682, with a 1725 enlargement into a two-and-a-half story house and a three-and-a-half story section added in 1800.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a typical and well-preserved example of 18th and early 19th century Pennsylvania stone house construction, showing how such houses were enlarged over time. It is also associated with the Wall, Shoemaker and Bosler families, who were locally prominent, and with early Society of Friends meetings held there, though the house's connection to those meetings is uncertain.","narrative":"Stone house on Wall Park Drive in Elkins Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, with its earliest section believed to date from 1682. Richard Wall, who received a land grant from William Penn, is associated with the original two-room building. Additions in 1725 and 1800 produced a two-and-a-half story house and a larger three-and-a-half story section, both with medium gable roofs, stone end chimneys, and double-hung sash windows. The porches and shutters are later features. The house is considered a representative example of Pennsylvania stone construction of the 18th and early 19th centuries, with stucco covering and side and rear additions typical of the region. Its significance also rests on local families: the Shoemakers, descendants of Richard Wall through his granddaughter Sarah, gave the surrounding area the name Shoemakertown until 1889, and the Bosler family owned the house from 1847 until the township bought it in 1932.","period_of_significance":"circa 1682","architect_builder":"Richard Wall","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The interior is described as in excellent condition and the house is in continuous residential use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.730272-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002302.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002302/b3cf41be9e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002302/b3cf41be9e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ike9898","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_house_rear.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ike9898</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:Wall_house_rear.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995439","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wall_house","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7962600"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montgomery-county/wall-house-79002302/"}