{"nrhp_refnum":"82003766","name":"Twining Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Buck Rd., Newtown Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newtown","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.21928132450006,"lon":-74.93905517270449,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A stone farmhouse, barn complex and outbuildings on a farm just south of Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, overlooking Newtown Creek near its confluence with the Neshaminy Creek. The farmhouse is built in several stages, with a date stone reading 1832 and initials D.H.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the farm as a fine, well-preserved example of multi-stage stone construction typical of Bucks and Chester Counties. It was associated with the painter Edward Hicks, who lived on the farmstead as a boy and later painted three views of the homestead. The farm was also one of the most prosperous estates in Newtown, and its bank barn is noted for early construction techniques.","narrative":"A multi-stage stone farmhouse south of Newtown in Bucks County, overlooking Newtown Creek, with its earliest section dating to about 1750. A date stone in the western section reads 1832 with the initials D.H., marking the enlargement by Dr. David Hutchinson. David Twining bought the farm in 1757 and held it until his death in 1791; he was a two-term member of the General Assembly and a librarian of the Newtown Library Company for 28 years. The farm is significant for its stone construction, which grew lengthwise as the family's needs expanded, and for its bank barn with pointed stone walls. It is also tied to the painter Edward Hicks, who was taken in by the Twining family as a boy and lived on the farmstead for about ten years. Three Hicks paintings of the homestead, dated about 1845 to 1848, survive in museum and private collections.","period_of_significance":"C. 1750, 1838, 1845-48","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial and Federal styles","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 17:11:33.685729-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/82003766.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003766/3aa3a2ce44-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003766/3aa3a2ce44-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Twining_Farm_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Shuvaev</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:Twining_Farm_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996773","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twining_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7858369"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/twining-farm-82003766/"}