{"nrhp_refnum":"86003561","name":"Stoever, John Casper, Log House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"200 W. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Holland","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.101197943000045,"lon":-76.09204007499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-01-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1 1/2 story corner-post log house at the southwest corner of West Main Street and Custer Avenue in New Holland Borough, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built in the 1730s and adjoins a late eighteenth century brick dwelling.","why_significant":"The house is regarded as a rare example of eighteenth century corner-post log construction, in which horizontal logs are mortised into corner posts, a technique rarely found in the region. It also includes a rare surviving example of half-timbering. The nomination links the house to John Casper Stoever, Jr. (1707-1779), one of the first Lutheran ministers to serve in America, who held services there.","narrative":"Built in the 1730s on a 295-acre parcel in New Holland, the one-and-a-half-story log house was laid out in a traditional continental plan of four rooms around a large central hearth. Its builders used corner posts into which the horizontal logs were mortised and tenoned, a method rarely recorded in American log construction. The gable ends were half-timbered, and a surviving section of half-timbering is considered rare. The house is also associated with John Casper Stoever, Jr., who held early Lutheran services in New Holland from about 1730 and later served as senior German Lutheran minister in Pennsylvania until his death in 1779. The house was converted to a center hall plan in the 1880s, with a rear addition and the removal of the central hearth. The nomination places its importance in the combination of an uncommon building technique and a documented link to early Lutheran church history in Pennsylvania.","period_of_significance":"c. 1740","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house was to be moved about thirty-five feet south and rotated after a road-widening agreement in 1989, with a new masonry foundation and removal of the 1880s rear addition possible.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.70494-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86003561.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003561/8ba6730d2a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003561/8ba6730d2a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:200_W_Main_New_Holland.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</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:200_W_Main_New_Holland.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996712","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Casper_Stoever_Log_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6225472"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/stoever-john-casper-log-house-86003561/"}