{"nrhp_refnum":"88001158","name":"Kurtz, T. M., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"312 W. Mahoning St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Punxsutawney","county":"Jefferson County","state":"PA","lat":40.94309733700004,"lon":-78.97263907599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick Colonial Revival residence on Mahoning Street in Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, built in 1904. It is a single contributing building and is described as largely unaltered since construction.","why_significant":"The house is nominated for its association with Theodore M. Kurtz, a local businessman and state senator, and as an outstanding local example of Colonial Revival architecture. It is attributed to architect Henry C. Park and builder McKean Harl, and is described as one of the town's most faithfully preserved turn-of-the-century residences.","narrative":"Built in 1904 on Mahoning Street in Punxsutawney, the three-story brick house was designed in the Colonial Revival style by architect Henry C. Park and constructed by local master builder McKean Harl. Its features include a semi-elliptical entry with art glass, bow-front bays flanking the facade, a porte-cochere, and a stair hall with an open double-run stair and oak wainscoting. It contains more than fifty art glass windows and original fireplaces with tile-fronted mantels. The house was built for Theodore M. Kurtz, a local businessman who ran coal operations and newspaper interests and later served in the Pennsylvania Senate for eight years. He lived there for forty-one years. The house is regarded as one of the county's earliest and most intact examples of the Colonial Revival style in a community where Victorian architecture predominated, and as a work by a notable regional architect whose practice included several public buildings.","period_of_significance":"1904-1938","architect_builder":"Park, H. C. (architect); Harl, McKean (builder)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"The document describes the house as well preserved and little changed, with the loss of the veranda and porte-cochere balustrades and some moulded plaster ceilings noted. It does not state current occupancy.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.93785-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88001158.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001158/1febf30ab9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001158/1febf30ab9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Punxsutawney,_Pennsylvania_(7087003187).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Punxsutawney,_Pennsylvania_(7087003187).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997890","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._M._Kurtz_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7668493"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/jefferson-county/kurtz-t-m-house-88001158/"}