{"nrhp_refnum":"85003655","name":"Rhoads Homestead","other_names":["Rhoads Homestead Complex"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"102--106 W. Bridge St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Hope","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.36988056200005,"lon":-74.95700406538792,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-08-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural farm complex of three dwellings and several outbuildings on about 60 acres north of York Road, just outside the central village of New Hope in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The core of the oldest house, the Pike Farmstead, is traditionally dated to 1734.","why_significant":"The complex is argued to represent dwelling types built for wealthy agriculturalists and merchants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is also argued to be significant as the site of a three-week encampment of part of the American army in December 1776, before the crossing of the Delaware River and the attack on Trenton.","narrative":"Set on roughly 60 acres north of York Road at the edge of New Hope, the complex grew from a mid-eighteenth-century stone farmhouse, traditionally dated to 1734, with a kitchen wing added by the late eighteenth century and a lean-to in the early nineteenth. The Pike-Paxson House, the principal structure today, was remodeled in the 1850s into a Victorian country villa with a cross wing, porches, bracketed bonnets and a stuccoed stone façade. A board-and-batten servants' house, a stone spring house and a ruined stone bank barn also remain. The land passed from the Pike family to the Paxson family and has stayed with descendants of Thomas Paxson. In December 1776 part of the American army under General William Alexander, Lord Stirling, camped on the tract near an important Delaware ferry crossing, helping hold British forces in New Jersey before the attack on Trenton. The complex is also valued as a rare example of the transition from early farmhouse forms to mid-nineteenth-century domestic architecture.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-nineteenth century Victorian country villa influenced by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux (Pike-Paxson House); traditional southeastern Pennsylvania farmhouse (Pike Farmstead)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used for agriculture; the land remains in agricultural use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:13:37.097243-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/85003655.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003655/31bc11fae6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003655/31bc11fae6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhoads_Homestead_Farmhouse_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Shuvaev</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:Rhoads_Homestead_Farmhouse_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992446","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoads_Homestead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7320817"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/rhoads-homestead-85003655/"}