{"nrhp_refnum":"82003794","name":"Yeates, Jasper, House","other_names":["WLPA Radio"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"24 26 S. Queen St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.03718434900003,"lon":-76.30539919599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-09-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Law","Politics/Government","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story brick Georgian townhouse on the southwest corner of South Queen and West Mifflin Streets in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, built in 1765-1766 for John Miller and later the home and office of the jurist Jasper Yeates.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be significant for its architecture, as one of the finest Georgian houses in Lancaster County and a close match to Philadelphia prototypes, and for its association with Jasper Yeates's legal, political and governmental career. The nomination notes it is the only surviving three-story, brick, Georgian-style residence of documented pre-Revolutionary date in Lancaster City. The 1978-1979 exterior restoration is cited as making these associations visible in the streetscape.","narrative":"Built in 1765-1766 as a three-story brick Georgian townhouse on the southwest corner of South Queen and West Mifflin Streets in Lancaster, the house was erected for John Miller. An 1882 alteration raised the roof to add a fourth story, and mid-twentieth-century work added a storefront and painted the brick. Exterior restoration completed in 1979 returned the facade to its eighteenth-century appearance, using Flemish bond brickwork, cut stone keystones, a pedimented doorway and a molded wood cornice matched to surviving fragments. The house was acquired by the lawyer and judge Jasper Yeates in 1775 and served as his residence and office until his death in 1817. Yeates chaired the Lancaster County Committee of Correspondence, sat at the 1787 Pennsylvania ratifying convention and served on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1791. The nomination regards it as the only surviving pre-Revolutionary three-story brick Georgian residence in Lancaster City. Its design is compared with Philadelphia houses of the same period.","period_of_significance":"1765-1766","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Exterior restored to its original appearance in 1979; the interior retains little original fabric.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.667261-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/82003794.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003794/bde5a180f2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003794/bde5a180f2-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jasper_Yeates_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jasper_Yeates_House.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"01000956","name":"Lancaster City Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/lancaster-city-historic-district-01000956/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996107","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Yeates_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6164090"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/yeates-jasper-house-82003794/"}