{"nrhp_refnum":"82003788","name":"Springer Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"PA 51, North Union Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Union","county":"Fayette County","state":"PA","lat":39.91931106800007,"lon":-79.7424264180699,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half story brick farmhouse, the Springer House, with its surviving outbuildings, on the former Springer Farm northwest of Uniontown in North Union Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The house is dated to about 1817 and was built for the Springer family.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is unusually large and richly detailed for a farmhouse in Fayette County and Southwestern Pennsylvania, with fourteen rooms, an unusual number of exterior doorways, and two-tier porches that it compares to southern colonial verandahs. It also argues the farmstead was a prominent agricultural unit under the Springer family from the early 19th century to 1910, and that the house retains most of its original architectural integrity.","narrative":"Located northwest of Uniontown in North Union Township, the Springer House is a two-and-a-half story brick farmhouse with a sandstone rubble foundation, built about 1817 for the Springer family. Its fourteen rooms, two-tier porches of turned walnut posts, and ten exterior doorways set it apart from the three- or five-bay farmhouses common in the region. Interior features include horsehair plaster walls, hand-planed panel doors, brass locks inscribed with the maker's name, and early 19th-century architrave trim with circular corner blocks. Levi Springer, who arrived from Virginia in the 1770s and received a patent for a 389-acre tract called Unity in 1786, built an earlier log dwelling before the brick house. His son Dennis Springer later expanded the estate, which passed to J.V. Thompson in 1910. Two outbuildings survive: a barn and a brick springhouse and smokehouse. The house is regarded as a notable example of an agricultural complex in the county.","period_of_significance":"c. 1817","architect_builder":"Levi Springer","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Vacant and deteriorated in recent years; structurally sound, with roof patching, porch support strengthening and barn roof painting done, and a local preservation organization involved in stabilization.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.206815-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/82003788.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003788/4d7a4e9fef-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003788/4d7a4e9fef-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jet Lowe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Springer_Farm_buildings.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jet Lowe</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Springer_Farm_buildings.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996816","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Farm_(Uniontown,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7580867"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fayette-county/springer-farm-82003788/"}