{"nrhp_refnum":"85002379","name":"Wilkinson House","other_names":["Site #63-1"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Rt. 482","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pocopson Twp.","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":39.92587122800006,"lon":-75.66562560899996,"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 frame Rural Gothic house in Pocopson Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, built about 1884 beside a former coal and bran business along the Wilmington and Northern Railroad. It is a building with a small frame stable or barn and a coal bin as associated resources.","why_significant":"The house is described as a pure example of the Rural Gothic style in the West Branch Brandywine Scenic River Corridor, where most houses are Colonial or Georgian. It retains original exterior and interior features, including siding, window sash, floors, kitchen pantry and light fixtures. The nomination also ties it to the Wilkinson coal business, which served the railroad's freight trade, and it is called the most intact house of its type in the corridor.","narrative":"A two-story frame house in Pocopson Township, Chester County, built about 1884 in the Rural Gothic style beside a coal and bran business that Lewis P. Wilkinson ran along the Wilmington and Northern Railroad. Wilkinson had established the coal business on two acres carved from his father's 125-acre farm in 1880, and in 1882 he built a bran house that is likely the present stable. The house has a central cross gable, decorative wood quoins, a front porch on a stone foundation with turned posts and jigsaw work, and original paneled and louvered shutters. Inside, its center hall, kitchen pantry, pass-through window, random-width floors and original light fixtures survive. The house is regarded as the most intact example of the Rural Gothic style in the Scenic River Corridor. The business was active until the early 1900s and reflects the railroad's freight trade, mainly coal hauled from the Reading area to Wilmington, Delaware.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Rural Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.639078-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/85002379.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002379/d85313c466-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002379/d85313c466-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wilkinson_Chesco_Wawaset.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</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:Wilkinson_Chesco_Wawaset.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992598","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkinson_House_(Pocopson_Township,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8002544"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/wilkinson-house-85002379/"}