{"nrhp_refnum":"84003324","name":"Whitford Station House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"405 S. Whitford Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Whiteland","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":40.014146821000054,"lon":-75.63707159099994,"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 small stone dwelling at Whitford Station on the south side of the Pennsylvania Railroad in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, built about 1833 for a local tradesman or laborer.","why_significant":"The house is eligible under criterion C as an example of a type of dwelling used by tradesmen, and it is significant for its use of the Penn Plan to arrange its interior space. It is also associated with the village of Whitford, or Oakland, which developed after the Pennsylvania Railroad was built and became a stop and service area on the Main Line.","narrative":"Built about 1833 of stone in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, this small two-room dwelling stands on the south side of the Pennsylvania Railroad across from the Whitford Station area. It was built for a local tradesman or laborer and follows a traditional rectangular plan with a basement kitchen set into the banked west end, a cooking fireplace, and a storage room used as a root cellar. Upper rooms contain small fireplaces, a built-in cupboard, and original beaded partitions. The house is regarded as the village building with the strongest surviving integrity, and it reflects the period when Whitford grew around the railroad as a stop with stabling, a water supply for steam engines, and stages running to West Chester. Its interior arrangement is the basis for its listing, as an example of the Penn Plan used for a modest dwelling of its era.","period_of_significance":"1820-1839","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular","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 17:11:32.929796-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/84003324.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003324/930e0703e2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003324/930e0703e2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Adam Moss from Macomb, IL, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whitford_station_from_under_trestle,_January_2013.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Moss from Macomb, IL, United States</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whitford_station_from_under_trestle,_January_2013.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992745","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitford_station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7996468"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/whitford-station-house-84003324/"}