{"nrhp_refnum":"85002347","name":"Baily Farm","other_names":["Site #50-2"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Strasburg and Broad Run Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"W. Bradford Twp.","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":39.94880632400003,"lon":-75.70284228099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Baily Farm is a stone house and frame barn on Strasburg Road in West Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, situated in the valley drained by Broad Run. The house was built in the 1790s, with the date and builder not firmly established.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a rare example of relatively high-style Federal architecture in a remote part of Chester County, executed as a single deliberately designed unit. Its prominent location on a major 18th-century road is argued to explain its Federal styling, and its punch and gouge woodwork is described as unusual in the Scenic River Corridor.","narrative":"Stone house on Strasburg Road in West Bradford Township, built in the 1790s and set into a bank above the road. Its five-bay, double-pile main block has a center hall plan, a semicircular fanlight over the paneled entrance, and an open-string stair rising in the hall. Punch and gouge carving decorates the mantels, the doorway and the fanlight, and the reeded fireplace and dentil-work shelf add further detail. The house was built as one unit, unlike most older houses in the corridor, and its visible roadside position reflects its Federal styling. Judge John Beale Bordley bought the land in 1794, and the property stayed in the Baily family until 1890. A frame barn stands beside the house and is counted as contributing. The house is regarded as an unusually well-preserved example of vernacular Federal design, though its proportions and plan carry earlier Georgian traditions.","period_of_significance":"1751-99","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Agriculture; residence","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.937535-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/85002347.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002347/5a0bfe80a6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002347/5a0bfe80a6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baily_Farm_Back.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baily_Farm_Back.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992559","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baily_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4848494"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/baily-farm-85002347/"}