{"nrhp_refnum":"84003277","name":"Kennedy, Francis W., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4717 Highland Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Whiteland","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":40.00558026400006,"lon":-75.65456773799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-08-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large frame summer residence in the Bradford Hills area of West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, built in 1889 on a tract of about 5.78 acres that crosses into East Bradford Township. It was designed by the Philadelphia architect Frank Miles Day for Francis Kennedy.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an important early work by Frank Miles Day and his first in the Shingle Style, a fusion of American and German sources. It is described as a rare and important example of the Shingle Style in the Mid-Atlantic region. It is also presented as an example of a late nineteenth-century planned residential development known as Bradford Hills.","narrative":"A large frame summer residence in Bradford Hills, Chester County, Pennsylvania, designed in 1889 by the Philadelphia architect Frank Miles Day for the client Francis Kennedy, who had commissioned it in 1888. Day's plans and elevations were published in American Architect and Building News in November 1889. The house has a deep gambrel roof, projecting bays on two elevations, double rows of dormer windows, and deep porches on all sides, originally sheathed in natural cedar shakes. Its interior is a large, open, curving space with a tall, finished basement. It is regarded as Day's first Shingle Style work, a fusion of American forms with German sources, and as a rare example of the style in the Mid-Atlantic region. Day, born in Philadelphia in 1861, had trained with several notable architects before opening his own office in 1886. The house was also built as part of the Bradford Hills development.","period_of_significance":"1880-1899","architect_builder":"Frank Miles Day (architect)","architectural_style":"Shingle Style","criteria":["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 17:11:33.453373-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/84003277.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003277/dd71b56cb0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003277/dd71b56cb0-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FW_Kennedy_House.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:FW_Kennedy_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992600","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_W._Kennedy_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5482665"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/kennedy-francis-w-house-84003277/"}