{"nrhp_refnum":"86001765","name":"Rice-Pennebecker Farm","other_names":["Fox Meadow Farm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Clover Mill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chester Springs","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":40.103846256000054,"lon":-75.59923644856465,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-08-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex of four contributing buildings and one contributing structure on both sides of Clover Mill Road beside Pickering Creek in West Pikeland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Its focal point is a stucco-covered stone Georgian additive-type house begun about 1767, with a 1831-1832 section and a large stone bank barn.","why_significant":"The nomination describes the farm as an excellent representative of nineteenth-century farm complexes in West Pikeland Township. It argues that the house is a locally outstanding example of Georgian additive-type architecture and that the barn and outbuildings are among the most intact of their kind in the township.","narrative":"Pickering Creek farm complex in West Pikeland Township, with a stone house begun about 1767 by Zachariah Rice, a miller who had come from Germany in 1751. In 1831-1832 George Pennypacker enlarged the house in Georgian style and rebuilt the stone bank barn, which is 55 by 85 feet. Rice and his wife Abigail supplied General Anthony Wayne's troops after the Battle of the Clouds in 1777, and the mill was converted to process clover seed in 1785. After the Pennypackers and Joseph Tustin turned to dairying around 1870, the Pickering Valley railroad, opened in 1871, let them ship butter, milk and produce to Philadelphia. The farm is regarded as one of the largest and most intact nineteenth-century farm complexes in the township, and the house as a locally outstanding example of its type.","period_of_significance":"1767-1870","architect_builder":"1767: Zachariah Rice; 1831: G. Pennypacker","architectural_style":"Georgian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The farm was altered in the 1960s with a one-story addition to the house; the barn and outbuildings are described as intact and in agricultural use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.835239-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86001765.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001765/dbc48ee28c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001765/dbc48ee28c-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pennebecker_barn.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pennebecker_barn.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995355","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%E2%80%93Pennebecker_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7322975"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/rice-pennebecker-farm-86001765/"}