{"nrhp_refnum":"80003504","name":"Graff's Market","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"27 N. 6th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Indiana","county":"Indiana County","state":"PA","lat":40.62360211200007,"lon":-79.15044384399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-12-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story wooden commercial building with a stone foundation and a cast iron front facade, housing a grocery and meat market on the ground floor with apartments above, located in the Borough of Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1887 and 1892.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Graff's Market has the only known extant cast iron facade in Indiana Borough, a surviving example of a once more common local building type. It also cites the business's long family ownership at the site, dating to 1880, and its surviving butchering equipment and marble-topped counter as an example of the small specialty shops in the borough's commercial history.","narrative":"Graff's Market is a three-story wooden commercial building on a stone foundation in the Borough of Indiana, Pennsylvania. Its west front is a cast iron facade in the High Victorian Italianate style, four bays wide with eight windows and two doors, and a nameplate identifies its maker as G. W. Mesker of Evansville, Indiana. Market construction took place between 1887 and 1892, with the cast iron facades added between 1897 and 1903. The ground floor holds a grocery with a meat section and hexagonal tile floors under a decorative moulded metal ceiling, and the upper floors are apartments. The building is regarded as the only known surviving cast iron facade in the borough, where such fronts were once more common. The Graff family, later the Graff-Muller family, has operated the business here since 1880. Original butchering tools and a marble-topped counter remain in use, which gives the property its commercial importance.","period_of_significance":"1880-1930","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"High Victorian Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Cast iron facade restored and repainted in 1979 by the owner; upper stories used for apartments.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.904523-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003504.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003504/868deec8f1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003504/868deec8f1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Canadian2006","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:27_North_6th_Street_Indiana_Pa.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian2006</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:27_North_6th_Street_Indiana_Pa.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995926","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graff%27s_Market","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592448"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/indiana-county/graffs-market-80003504/"}