{"nrhp_refnum":"85001151","name":"Powell, John, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Hephzibah Hill Rd., East Fallowfield Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Coatesville","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":39.93798879600007,"lon":-75.81369087799999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-05-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, five-bay stucco-over-fieldstone farmhouse in East Fallowfield Township, Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, associated with the farm of the Buck and Doe Run Valley Farms. It is a 0.3-acre parcel on Hephzibah Hill Road.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant in the field of agriculture as the center of a farm that was a grain farm until after the Civil War and later passed through dairy and beef cattle operations. It is also presented as one of a local collection of vernacular farmsteads tied to the agricultural era of 1770-1820 in East Fallowfield Township.","narrative":"A two-story, five-bay farmhouse of stucco over fieldstone stands on Hephzibah Hill Road in East Fallowfield Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Its features include lipped chimneys at both gable ends, nine-over-six and six-over-six windows, shutters, a plain box cornice, an asphalt-shingled gabled roof, double unbalanced main entrances, and a full-width porch. Originally built by John Powell, an eighteenth-century resident of the township, it is a transitional Georgian and Federal farmhouse that served as the center of a grain farm that remained in grain production until after the Civil War. Under later owners Moses and Robert Keech, butter production doubled between 1860 and 1870. The house is regarded as significant for its link to agriculture, both as part of a group of vernacular farmsteads tied to the 1770 to 1820 agricultural period in the township and for its continued role in farming over two centuries as the land moved from grain to dairy to beef cattle.","period_of_significance":"780 - 1820","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"The farm is described as part of an extensive beef cattle ranch today; the form lists the present use as farm and condition as average.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.088132-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/85001151.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001151/85713554c3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001151/85713554c3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Hshuvaeva","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Powell_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Hshuvaeva</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:John_Powell_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992553","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Powell_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6253278"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/powell-john-house-85001151/"}