{"nrhp_refnum":"83002217","name":"Spicker, Peter, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"150 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stouchsburg","county":"Berks County","state":"PA","lat":40.38109512050005,"lon":-76.23676615498178,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-04-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A native limestone house in western Berks County near Stouchsburg, Pennsylvania, built in three sections from about 1740 to about 1800, with a late 18th-century Pennsylvania German banked stone barn.","why_significant":"The house is significant as the home of the Spicker family before and during the Revolutionary War, particularly of Peter Spicker, the first Justice of the Peace and later the first President Judge of Berks County. It is also an unusual example of the transition from Germanic to Georgian architectural style, with each of its three sections showing a different stage of that shift.","narrative":"Built of native limestone in three sections between about 1740 and 1800, the Spicker House near Stouchsburg shows the shift from Pennsylvania German building traditions to the Georgian style. The oldest western section, dating from about 1740, has an asymmetrical door and window arrangement, a basement kitchen and a bake oven, all housed under one roof. The central portion from about 1750 has segmented and jack-arched lintels, and the eastern section from about 1800 has keystones, red sandstone quoins and symmetrical bays. Peter Spicker lived in the house from 1755 to 1789 and served as the first Justice of the Peace and later the first President Judge of Berks County. The house was used as an assembly point for local militia during the French and Indian Wars, and his son Henry served as a colonel in the Berks County militia during the Revolutionary War.","period_of_significance":"1740-1800","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Germanic to Georgian transition; Pennsylvania German and Georgian features","criteria":["A","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 17:11:32.946304-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/83002217.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002217/7afd8f83f9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002217/7afd8f83f9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Spicker_House_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:Peter_Spicker_House_01.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"85000672","name":"Tulpehocken Creek Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/tulpehocken-creek-historic-district-85000672/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998287","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Spicker_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7177052"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/berks-county/spicker-peter-house-83002217/"}