{"nrhp_refnum":"80003523","name":"Dohner, Michael, Farmhouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E of Lancaster","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.027560648000076,"lon":-76.22986015799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-06-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A fieldstone farmhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, built in two sections, with a stone and frame springhouse about fifty feet to the south. The house is built in the German continental house form and was built by Michael Dohner around 1732.","why_significant":"The original portion is presented as an excellent example of the Continental House, a medieval-derived form brought by German and Swiss settlers in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The house shows how an early farmhouse was enlarged over the 18th and 19th centuries, and it is compared favorably with the nearby Hans Herr house. It also remained in the Dohner family for 125 years.","narrative":"Built around 1732 by Michael Dohner, this fieldstone farmhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, follows the German continental house tradition. Its original western section has one story under a steep roof, a kitchen spanning the full width of the house, a Stube and a Kammer, and a massive interior fireplace set off-center. Stone segmental and flat arches frame the openings, and a small seelenfenster window survives on the north side. In the late 18th or early 19th century the roof eaves were raised to create a full second story, and a two-bay addition was built on the east end. The house was built by a member of one of the earliest Mennonite families in the area, the Dohners, and remained in that family for 125 years. It is significant as a well-preserved example of how an early Pennsylvania German farmhouse grew to meet the needs of successive generations, and it is a useful comparison with the nearby Hans Herr house, which was never enlarged.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799","architect_builder":"Michael Dohner","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:34.342581-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003523.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003523/5833dda6cf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003523/5833dda6cf-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Terry Doner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Dohner_Farmhouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Terry Doner</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:Michael_Dohner_Farmhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996143","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dohner_Farmhouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6829894"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/dohner-michael-farmhouse-80003523/"}