{"nrhp_refnum":"86001687","name":"O'Donel House and Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of New Germantown on PA 274","address_restricted":false,"city":"Blain","county":"Perry County","state":"PA","lat":40.281582832000026,"lon":-77.62170956899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-07-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex in rural Toboyne Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania, on the north side of State Route 274 about 3½ miles west of New Germantown, comprising a two-bay log house built ca. 1863, a bank barn, a wood shed, an outhouse, and a combined wash house/smokehouse.","why_significant":"The house is built in pièce sur pièce corner-post log construction, which the nomination describes as a fairly rare form in Perry County and one of only six such houses known to survive there, with good integrity. It blends Pennsylvania German and English building traditions in its plan and chimney placement. The outbuildings, including the late nineteenth-century bank barn, are described as representative of typical county farm buildings.","narrative":"Built ca. 1863 in Toboyne Township, Perry County, the O'Donel House is a two-story log house of pièce sur pièce corner-post construction, set on a fieldstone foundation with a large fieldstone chimney on its west end. Tradition holds that David Yocum built it. Its three-room plan on each floor resembles the Pennsylvania German Continental house, but its external west chimney reflects English building practice, and the nomination treats this mix of traditions as a key reason for listing. The house is described as one of only six corner-post log houses known to survive in Perry County, and one of the few with good integrity. The farmstead also includes a bank barn of heavy timber framing, dated by family history to 1893, and a combined wash house and smokehouse. The house has been occupied by members of the O'Donel family, and the property was later transferred to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.","period_of_significance":"1863","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Lee O'Donel, aged 91 years, continues to occupy the dwelling under a building lease with the Commonwealth.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:34.590409-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86001687.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001687/0048038cab-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001687/0048038cab-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ODonel_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ODonel_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998360","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Donel_House_and_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7071759"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/perry-county/odonel-house-and-farm-86001687/"}