{"nrhp_refnum":"82003821","name":"Nook, The","other_names":["Francis Farquhar House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1101 Farquhar Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"York Spring Garden","county":"York County","state":"PA","lat":39.945584437000036,"lon":-76.72386658799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-03-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two and one-half story Shingle style and Queen Anne style frame house called The Nook, in the Spring Garden area of York, York County, Pennsylvania, built 1893-98 to a design by Dempwolf of York, with log outbuildings including a playhouse and a garage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a well-preserved example of the frame Queen Anne and Shingle styles in York, where most early Queen Anne buildings are brick row houses. It is linked to the A.B. Farquhar agricultural machinery firm and to Francis Farquhar's civic and humanitarian work, and the surviving remnants of the Edgecombe estate form part of its setting.","narrative":"Built between 1893 and 1898 in the Spring Garden area of York, Pennsylvania, The Nook is a two and one-half story frame house with intersecting slate-covered gable roofs, a polygonal turret, and wall surfaces of clapboard, wood shingles, and stucco with half-timbering. It was designed by Dempwolf of York and stands on a hill that was once virgin forest, with about two acres of trees and shrubs, some brought from abroad. Its log playhouse and garage survive as outbuildings. The house was the home of Francis Farquhar, who ran his father's A.B. Farquhar Company, a major York manufacturer of agricultural machinery from 1862 until 1951. Farquhar also led York County Red Cross and Boy Scout organizations and served on several civic boards. The house is one of few surviving frame Queen Anne examples in York, and the only one built in that style that the nomination links to the city's early industrial history.","period_of_significance":"1893-1898","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Shingle style","criteria":["B","C"],"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 17:11:33.188587-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/82003821.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003821/156640df32-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003821/156640df32-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nook_1_YorkCo_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:Nook_1_YorkCo_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998217","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nook_(Spring_Garden_Township,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7754295"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/york-county/nook-the-82003821/"}