{"nrhp_refnum":"85003472","name":"Harriton","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1401--1415 Old Guelph Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Villanova","county":"Montgomery County","state":"PA","lat":40.04135903550005,"lon":-75.3215548962504,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-10-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Harriton Farm is a historic estate in Villanova, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, made up of a main house, a gatehouse, a tenant farmhouse, a bungalow, a bank barn and a stable, with a later Colonial Revival house built after World War II. The farm grew out of an early Quaker property assembled by the Morris family in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the estate is a rare, well-preserved survivor of a Quaker gentleman's farm on the Philadelphia Main Line, retaining its full cluster of buildings amid fields and woodland after most such estates were subdivided. It also cites the buildings' link to the Morris family, the Vaux and Price architects, and the continuity of Quaker restraint in design from the eighteenth century onward.","narrative":"Harriton Farm is a Quaker-derived estate in Villanova, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, whose main house began as a late Federal rubble stone house built around 1840 for Levi Morris, founder of the Morris Iron Works. The estate includes a gothic gatehouse from the 1860s, a barn with a large cupola and a stable with twin cupolas, probably from the 1880s. A bungalow of 1908 designed by William S. Vaux, who died that year, reflects a shift toward summer residence, and Walter Price remodeled the main house in 1923 with Colonial Revival mantels and a large south parlor. The property is regarded as a rare survivor of a Main Line Quaker estate, having kept its significant buildings after most neighboring estates were subdivided following World War II. Its plain, restrained architecture is seen as an expression of Quaker values across more than a century.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"William S. Vaux (architect, bungalow); Walter Price (architect, 1923 alterations to main house); Walter Durham, Jr. (architect, post-war house)","architectural_style":null,"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 17:11:33.270698-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/85003472.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998487","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montgomery-county/harriton-85003472/"}