{"nrhp_refnum":"85002360","name":"House at Springdell","other_names":["Site #48-1"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Rt. 841","address_restricted":false,"city":"W. Marlborough Twp.","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":39.90702048800006,"lon":-75.83543444999998,"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":"A two-story stone Penn Plan house on a small parcel in the hamlet of Springdell, West Marlborough Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, dating from the 18th century. The form gives its construction period as 1751-99 and identifies it as a residence with a farmstead original use.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a nearly textbook example of the Penn Plan, an 18th-century vernacular type, and that it is the only relatively intact 18th-century survivor of its kind in the West Branch Brandywine corridor. It also links the house to local grist-milling and village history and to the outlaw James Fitzpatrick, whom local historians associate with it.","narrative":"Stone-walled residence in the hamlet of Springdell, West Marlborough Township, Chester County, built in the 18th century in the two-story, double-pile Penn Plan. Its thick walls, gable-end fireplace, pegged frames and round-log basement joists are described as standard features of the period, and the basement kitchen survives. The house was once part of a tract that included a grist mill, and it is linked to James Fitzpatrick, a Revolutionary-era outlaw whom local historians tie to the house as his mother's home. Its plan has been changed little since the 18th century, and it is regarded as the only relatively intact survivor of that era in the West Branch Brandywine corridor. Later alterations include added water and electricity, a side window, an asphalt roof and a replacement porch, and the house is described as having retained its basic integrity despite them.","period_of_significance":"1751-1799","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Penn Plan","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a residence; the basement kitchen is no longer used, and the fireplaces are sealed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.520868-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/85002360.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002360/0e5e49ad42-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002360/0e5e49ad42-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_Springdell.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:House_at_Springdell.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992586","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_Springdell","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15225999"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/house-at-springdell-85002360/"}