{"nrhp_refnum":"86000320","name":"Van Kirk Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Round Hill Rd. at Scenery Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Elizabeth","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.24242275200007,"lon":-79.8627821706425,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-02-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Van Kirk Farm is a working nineteenth century dairy farm in rural Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Its centerpiece is a brick Greek Revival farmhouse dating to about 1840, with a springhouse, a board and batten house, a frame barn and several outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is one of the county's better examples of a nineteenth century farm with excellent integrity of site. The farmhouse is described as the only surviving Greek Revival farmhouse in Allegheny County, with a fluted Doric portico and symmetrical center-hall plan. The farm is also presented as one of the three most intact nineteenth century farms in the county.","narrative":"Set on rising ground in rural Elizabeth Township, the Van Kirk Farm is a working dairy farm centered on a red brick Greek Revival farmhouse dated to about 1840. The house has a center-hall plan, six-over-six windows and a front portico with four fluted Doric columns, and its interior woodwork, including door surrounds and mantels with attached pilasters, is largely intact. The farm also includes a two-story brick springhouse with brick ventilators, a board and batten house, a frame barn, and a one-room frame building thought to date to about 1875. Land here was owned by Joseph Van Kirk, who acquired 112 acres in 1813 and nearly 300 more by 1823. The farm is considered important because its farmhouse is the county's rare regional example of the style, and because its buildings and rural setting preserve a nineteenth century agricultural landscape that has largely disappeared from Allegheny County.","period_of_significance":"c. 1840","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Working farm with the farmhouse and outbuildings intact; the only non-historic building on the site is a modern metal garage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.986868-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86000320.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000320/32c8be5206-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000320/32c8be5206-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lee Paxton","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VanKirkFarm.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Paxton</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VanKirkFarm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995425","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Kirk_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7913463"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/van-kirk-farm-86000320/"}