{"nrhp_refnum":"87001206","name":"White Horse Farm","other_names":["Elijah F. Pennypacker House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"54 S. Whitehorse Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Phoenixville","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":40.11849886500005,"lon":-75.50494844799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-07-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2½ story stucco over stone farmhouse with a stone barn, a stone springhouse and a 1983 garage on a hilltop along White Horse Road in Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The core dates from the eighteenth century and was enlarged in stages, with a major remodeling in 1915.","why_significant":"The house is presented as an early and representative example of a early twentieth-century trend of adding columned Georgian Revival and classical facades to older farmhouses to create country estates. The nomination also argues it has secondary importance for its association with Elijah F. Pennypacker, a nineteenth-century politician and abolitionist whose home was a stop on the Underground Railroad.","narrative":"Set on a hilltop beside White Horse Road in Schuylkill Township, White Horse Farm is a stuccoed stone farmhouse whose core was built in stages from before 1800, with a stone two-bay section added about 1810 and frame sections about 1840. In 1915 the owner Col. Edward C. Meier added a Georgian Revival frontispiece, a columned veranda with Doric and colossal columns, dormers and a rear addition holding a 24 by 35 foot ballroom. The house is regarded as an early and representative example of a trend in the Schuylkill River Valley of converting eighteenth and nineteenth century farmhouses into country estates. The property is also linked to Elijah F. Pennypacker (1804-1888), a state legislator and abolitionist who was born there, and whose home on White Horse Road was a stop on the Underground Railroad. The house, the 1810 barn and the springhouse contribute to the property's significance.","period_of_significance":"C. 1770-1915","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian Revival frontispiece with Arts and Crafts details and Doric columns (1915 renovation); stone and frame vernacular core","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Good integrity; the barn and springhouse are still in use without change; the 1983 garage is non-contributing","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.3847-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/87001206.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001206/f83ae10fcd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001206/f83ae10fcd-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_Horse_Farm_CC_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_Horse_Farm_CC_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998065","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Horse_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7994819"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/white-horse-farm-87001206/"}