{"nrhp_refnum":"84003451","name":"Werner, William, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"66 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lititz","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.156652043000065,"lon":-76.30486508399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-05-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one and one-half story frame house at 66 East Main Street in Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, built in 1762 by William Werner, the town cooper, tooth drawer and phlebotomist.","why_significant":"The house is presented as an example of English Georgian design influencing regional Germanic construction in Lancaster County. It is regarded as one of the best preserved, least altered 18th-century homes in the county. Its double clock by local clockmaker William Henry Hall and its use as a town bank and store add to its local significance in architecture and commerce.","narrative":"Built in 1762 on a Main Street lot in Lititz, Lancaster County, this one and one-half story frame house blends regional Germanic building methods with English Georgian proportions. Its wattle and daub walls and clapboards sit on a stone foundation, and a central brick chimney rises through a slate gable roof. The builder, Werner, was the town cooper, tooth drawer and phlebotomist, and he ran his business from the house. The front vestibule served as a bank and store, and its safe remains. A two-faced clock built into the wall between the two main rooms was made by William Henry Hall, a Lititz clockmaker and teacher who had painted the dial at the Ephrata Academy. An 1849 addition added two front dormers, each with a Palladian window, and enlarged the rear, which serves as a kitchen today. The house is regarded as one of the best preserved and least altered 18th-century homes in Lancaster County, showing the shift from Germanic construction to classical planned-town design.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"English Georgian influence on regional Germanic construction","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition recorded as good and altered; the 1849 rear addition serves as a kitchen today.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.695484-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/84003451.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003451/9d35781cd1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003451/9d35781cd1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:66_E_Main_Lititz_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:66_E_Main_Lititz_PA.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"86001030","name":"Lititz Moravian Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/lititz-moravian-historic-district-86001030/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996286","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Werner_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8020198"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/werner-william-house-84003451/"}