{"nrhp_refnum":"84003339","name":"Shippen, Judge Henry, House","other_names":["Red Cross Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"403 Chestnut St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Meadville","county":"Crawford County","state":"PA","lat":41.63721971700005,"lon":-80.14768905599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-06-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Law","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two and a half story, three-bay by six-bay brick residence with a mansard roof, located on the northeast corner of Chestnut and Liberty streets in Meadville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1838 as a single detached dwelling.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of Meadville's best examples of a fashionable in-town residence, notable for its fine proportions and workmanship. Its 1870s remodeling from Federal to Second Empire style is said to show the evolution of domestic architectural design in the town. It is also associated with the Shippen family and with Unitarian activity hosted there by Margaret Shippen.","narrative":"Built in 1838 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, at the northeast corner of Chestnut and Liberty streets, this two and a half story brick house was made for Judge Henry Shippen, who had come to the village in 1825 after his appointment as judge of the Sixth Judicial District. He died a year after completing it, leaving his widow, Margaret, to raise ten children. She hosted numerous Unitarian functions there between 1840 and 1860. In the 1870s her son Evan, an iron furnace manager, remodeled the house from Federal to Second Empire style, adding a mansard roof, a bracketed cornice, a frieze and iron lace porch detailing, and divided the interior into two apartments. The original woodwork was retained. The house is regarded as one of Meadville's finest in-town residences and one of its earliest important dwellings, showing how domestic design changed over the nineteenth century.","period_of_significance":"1838-&Later","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal originally; converted to Second Empire style in the 1870s","criteria":[],"status_note":"Converted into two apartments; the north section was later occupied by the Crawford County Office for the Aging and the south section by the Meadville Chapter of the Red Cross.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.593532-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/84003339.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003339/8b658962f1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003339/8b658962f1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Judge_Henry_Shippen_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Judge_Henry_Shippen_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996448","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Henry_Shippen_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6302545"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/crawford-county/shippen-judge-henry-house-84003339/"}