{"nrhp_refnum":"83002282","name":"Forester's Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Broad and Hartford Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Milford","county":"Pike County","state":"PA","lat":41.32246108100003,"lon":-74.80341658899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Conservation","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Forester's Hall, also written Forest Hall, is a large eight-bay three-story commercial building at the corner of Broad and Harford Streets in Milford, Pike County, Pennsylvania, extending to Pear Alley. The original part was built around 1886 and the remainder in 1904.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building played a significant role in the development of forestry education, as it served as a classroom and auditorium for the Yale School of Forestry program associated with Gifford Pinchot and the Pinchot family. It also housed a large meeting hall that was the center of Milford's social life, and its interior features include hardwood woodwork and a marble fireplace.","narrative":"Milford's Broad Street is home to this three-story commercial block, built in stages around 1886 and 1904 with bluestone walls, plastered upper stories, slate roofs and small towers. Its design echoes the chateau-style Grey Towers, the Pinchot family home, and it uses smooth stucco and bluestone quoins in the manner of French chateaux. James Pinchot commissioned the 1904 addition, which was designed by the firm of Hunt, to serve as classrooms and a meeting place for the Yale School of Forestry, founded in 1900 with a Pinchot family endowment. The second-floor meeting hall, with its large marble fireplace and a stage, served fraternal groups and community gatherings. The ground floor held shops, and the building's interiors include hardwood staircases, carved newel posts and a walnut door curved to fit a tower room. The nomination regards it as an important link to American forestry education.","period_of_significance":"1904","architect_builder":"E.S. Wolfe/Hunt & Hunt","architectural_style":"Chateauesque","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Exterior plaster is falling away and in need of repair; ground floor stores house a drug store, beauty parlor, ice-cream store and barber shop, with some spaces unoccupied.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.664679-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/83002282.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002282/4680912445-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002282/4680912445-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forest_Hall_Milford_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forest_Hall_Milford_PA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"02000951","name":"Milford Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/milford-historic-district-boundary-increase-02000951/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996551","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forester%27s_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5469230"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/pike-county/foresters-hall-83002282/"}