{"nrhp_refnum":"86000856","name":"Roberts, Enoch, House","other_names":["Trainer Mansion"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1226 W. Broad St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quakertown","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.44232326700006,"lon":-75.35159060899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-04-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A plastered fieldstone Georgian house with a two and one-half story formal core and an attached stone kitchen wing, on West Broad Street in Quakertown Borough, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1814 for innkeeper Enoch Roberts.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a well-preserved vernacular Georgian mansion of the early nineteenth century with unusually intact interior woodwork and floor plan. It is also linked to Enoch Roberts, a prominent Quakertown citizen who owned the Red Lion Hotel. The authors regard it as an exceptional house for upper Bucks County, predating the common formal Georgian type there by about twenty years.","narrative":"Built about 1814 of local fieldstone and plastered over, the Enoch Roberts House stands on West Broad Street in Quakertown, a village that was then a small crossroads in Richland Township. Enoch Roberts, a Quaker who had bought the Red Lion Hotel in 1793, had the house built while he owned the inn at Main and Broad Streets. Its two and one-half story core has five bays, a central hall with an open string staircase, and a large east parlor with original built-in closets. Interior woodwork is largely original, and the house retains over ninety percent of its woodwork and floor plan. The entrance doorway and dormers were remodeled in the 1830s, probably under his son Joel, with fan transoms and keystone trim. A portico was added about 1940 during the Trainer family's ownership, when the house was later known for its restaurant. Because it is well preserved and exceptional for the region, the house is considered important to the town's early history.","period_of_significance":"c. 1814-1853","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian; vernacular Georgian with later Greek Revival-influenced 1830s alterations","criteria":[],"status_note":"Being restored and rehabilitated under the Certified Historic Structure Tax Credits program at the time of nomination","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.760574-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86000856.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000856/019c965131-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000856/019c965131-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"PattiParker","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enoch_Roberts_House,_Quakertown_2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">PattiParker</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:Enoch_Roberts_House,_Quakertown_2.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"11000200","name":"Quakertown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/quakertown-historic-district-11000200/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997898","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Roberts_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5379324"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/roberts-enoch-house-86000856/"}