{"nrhp_refnum":"85001966","name":"Gauff-Roth House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"427--443 Auburn St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Allentown","county":"Lehigh County","state":"PA","lat":40.59624818100008,"lon":-75.46408280499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-family Queen Anne style dwelling on eight original tracts of land in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is a large Victorian house with an irregular rectangular plan, wraparound porch, turret and tear-shaped carriage drive.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a good example of a grand, vernacular Queen Anne mansion and one of the few of its kind remaining in Allentown. It is presented as representative of the architectural detail common in Allentown houses of the period, and its large lot and carriage drive are described as original and integral to its design.","narrative":"Built in 1880 in Allentown, the Gauff-Roth House is a large Queen Anne dwelling with a wraparound porch, a polygonal turret, multiple gables and a brick veneer over a stone basement. Its interior holds an oak staircase with 116 balusters rising three floors, carved oak woodwork, two decorative fireplaces with patterned tile, and ornamental plaster arches on the second floor. The house was commissioned by sisters Mary Craig and Elizabeth Gauff with money inherited from their grandfather, Jacob Geisinger, and was constructed by William H. Gangewere, a prolific local builder who had recently entered a partnership with Abraham Gangewere & Son. It sits on eight tracts of land with a tear-shaped carriage drive, and its grounds and setting are described as original. The house is valued as a grand example of vernacular Queen Anne design and as one of the few mansions of this type still standing in Allentown.","period_of_significance":"1880","architect_builder":"William H. Gangewere (builder/architect)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Altered; rear porches enclosed and an attached garage added circa 1943; metal roof cresting lost between 1947 and 1982.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.954737-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/85001966.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001966/e080b83b9d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001966/e080b83b9d-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gauff_Roth_Allentown_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:Gauff_Roth_Allentown_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994469","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauff-Roth_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5527624"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lehigh-county/gauff-roth-house-85001966/"}