{"nrhp_refnum":"87001983","name":"Donaldson, Widow, Place","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"177 Bear Valley Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Loudon","county":"Franklin County","state":"PA","lat":39.91339216500006,"lon":-77.89549387799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-11-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story log house with an attached stone summer kitchen on about one acre of land on the west side of Bear Valley Road, about one half mile from the village of Fort Loudon, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The house dates to about 1775.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare surviving example in south central Pennsylvania of log construction, with only a handful of such buildings known in Franklin, Adams and Fulton Counties. It is described as one of the best preserved and largest log buildings among these, and compares favorably in integrity with other listed log houses in the region.","narrative":"Log house with a stone summer kitchen, built about 1775 on a one-acre parcel near Fort Loudon in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The two-story house measures 24 by 20 feet, with logs joined by inverted V-notches, a standing seam tin roof, and a two-story front porch. A massive rubble sandstone chimney rises on the north gable, and the interior keeps its squared timber posts, ceiling beams, and random width pegged oak flooring. A fire in the mid-1800s damaged the roof and second floor, after which a porch was added. The house was occupied as a farmhouse from the late eighteenth century until 1970. It is regarded as one of the largest and best preserved log buildings among a small group of such houses in three neighboring counties. A 1798 tax list records a two-story log home of the same dimensions, indicating it existed by 1779. The 1986 rehabilitation retained the logs, chimney, foundation, and most interior doors and beams.","period_of_significance":"c.1775","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Rehabilitated in 1986 by the current owners and used as a rental property; previously vacant from 1970 to 1986.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.558476-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/87001983.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001983/f5c112ae63-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001983/f5c112ae63-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Widow_Donaldson_Ft_Loudon_PA.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:Widow_Donaldson_Ft_Loudon_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996914","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widow_Donaldson_Place","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7998800"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/franklin-county/donaldson-widow-place-87001983/"}