{"nrhp_refnum":"80003517","name":"Hibshman Farm","other_names":["Schantz Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Springville Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ephrata","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.20499901250005,"lon":-76.1757573607963,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-06-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A diversified family farm complex in Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with a stone farmhouse begun in the mid-18th century and completed in 1801, a stone barn, and a group of outbuildings dating from the 1700s to the mid-20th century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is an excellent example of the Pennsylvania family farm complex, with an intact and sophisticated Georgian-style interior in the main house. It also cites the farm's continued operation as a working family farm that has adapted to new farming methods while keeping its historic character.","narrative":"Hibschman Farm is a family farm complex near Ephrata in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, built up over several generations from the late 1700s into the 20th century. Its central stone house was begun in the 1750s and completed in 1801 by Wendell and Hannah Hibschman, who marked the date on a datestone. The main section has a symmetrical five-bay facade, a central hall and some of the most intact Georgian-style interior woodwork in the county, including corner cupboards, a chimneybreast with pilasters, and a staircase, with some details thought to draw on eighteenth-century English pattern books. The house also keeps original paint colors and grained doors imitating inlaid mahogany. A large stone end barn, dated 1790, stands nearby, and the complex includes a wash house, several frame outbuildings, and a second farmhouse. The farm is significant as a working family farm that has kept its historic buildings while adding facilities and adopting new crops and methods over time.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian interior woodwork in a Federal-period house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still under cultivation and operated as a family farm","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.316914-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003517.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003517/3e30d1259c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003517/3e30d1259c-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hibshman_Farm_LanCo_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hibshman_Farm_LanCo_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995475","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibshman_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5750894"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/hibshman-farm-80003517/"}