{"nrhp_refnum":"85001002","name":"Keystone Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"40 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hummelstown","county":"Dauphin County","state":"PA","lat":40.26603297200006,"lon":-76.70540344899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-05-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A hotel and inn at the corner of Main and Water Streets in Hummelstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, built in 1839 by G. & E. Fox after a fire destroyed the earlier inn on the site. It was enlarged in 1850 and later became a two-part building with an attached brownstone outbuilding.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hotel was one of the town's principal inns for more than a century, serving travelers on the Reading to Harrisburg Turnpike and the Union Canal traffic, as well as quarry workers. It also describes the hotel as a community gathering place, with livestock sales, an early telephone and an early radio, and says it is one of only two remaining early 19th-century hotels in the town.","narrative":"Built in 1839 by G. and E. Fox on the corner of Main and Water Streets in Hummelstown, the Keystone Hotel is a brick building of Flemish bond laid on a limestone foundation, with a gable roof and twin chimneys. Its builders replaced an earlier inn that burned that year. An 1850 expansion more than doubled its size, raising the front roofline and adding a three-bay addition on the east. Behind it stands a brownstone outbuilding with a fireplace and a large bake oven, and a small brick ice house. The main staircase and several doors and fireplaces survive from the 1839 period. The hotel served travelers on the Reading to Harrisburg Turnpike and the Union Canal, housed quarry workers, and hosted livestock sales. Its early telephone and radio made it a focal point for townspeople during public events.","period_of_significance":"1839-1850","architect_builder":"G. Fox (builder)","architectural_style":"Federal (vernacular)","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Deteriorated, altered; the form also records original site, and the 1850 expansion and later dining room are noted.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.985833-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/85001002.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001002/6efaf1719e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001002/6efaf1719e-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Keystone_Hotel_DauphCo_PA.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:Keystone_Hotel_DauphCo_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995910","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Hotel_(Hummelstown,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6398470"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/dauphin-county/keystone-hotel-85001002/"}