{"nrhp_refnum":"84003449","name":"Walter, Henry, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Greenville Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Blainsport","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.27059543300004,"lon":-76.15426837799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-07-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story rectangular stone house with a formal German-plan interior, located along Greenville Road in West Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, together with an associated stone and frame bank barn to the south. It was built c. 1750-1768 for Henry Walter.","why_significant":"The house is regarded as a major example of eighteenth-century Germanic architecture in Pennsylvania, distinguished by its formal four-room plan with a vorstube entry and elaborately panelled enclosed staircase. Its interior woodwork is described as unusually intact for the region. The nomination also links the site to Walter's gun manufactory, boring mill, saw mill and joiner's workshop, which tie it to pre-Revolutionary industrial history.","narrative":"Built of local brown and reddish-brown sandstone in West Cocalico Township, this two-story house was probably erected for Henry Walter between about 1750 and his death in 1768. Its front entry, called a vorstube, holds a panelled enclosure around the staircases, and the stube, kammer and kitchen follow a four-room plan that is rare in Pennsylvania German houses of this date. The original woodwork retains paint in dark blue, gold and red, and the cellar is vaulted. Walter also ran a gun manufactory, boring mill and saw mill on the property, and the inventory of his 1769 estate lists gun-making tools, carpenter's tools and a surveyor's compass. The interior is considered unusually well preserved for its period. Its exterior changes include lost window sash and a later porch.","period_of_significance":"c. 1750-1768","architect_builder":"Henry Walter (?)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored or being restored; summer kitchen and bake oven are recent and non-contributing","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.403808-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/84003449.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003449/42de52f35b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003449/42de52f35b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HENRY_WALTER_HOUSE_LANCASTER_COUNTY,_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:HENRY_WALTER_HOUSE_LANCASTER_COUNTY,_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994698","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Walter_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5729806"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/walter-henry-house-84003449/"}