{"nrhp_refnum":"88002371","name":"Todd, John, House","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"S. Meadow Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hummelstown","county":"Dauphin County","state":"PA","lat":40.35207891300007,"lon":-76.67059606599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-11-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A circa 1772 two-and-a-half-story five-bay fieldstone house in East Hanover Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, built on the Todd farm with a nearby brick summer house, cold cellar, hand-dug well and bank barn. It is set on 6.5 acres of the original 190-acre farm.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the few surviving stone homes of early Scots-Irish settlers in Hanover Township and a fine example of vernacular Georgian architecture. It notes that the 1798 Direct Tax shows a dozen substantial stone houses in the township at that time, most of which are now gone. The house is also tied to John Todd, a Revolutionary War veteran, and to the German owners who later added the summer house and related buildings.","narrative":"Built of uncoursed rubble stone around 1772 on a farm in East Hanover Township, Dauphin County, the John Todd house is a five-bay Georgian dwelling with stone quoins, a side-gabled roof, and stone flat arches over its lower windows and door transom. John Todd, born in 1742, acquired the 190-acre property in 1771. The house was damaged by fire in the late 1700s and rebuilt soon after, and its interior retains early raised six-panel doors, hard pine floors, and several fireplaces, including a large walk-in kitchen fireplace. A stove plate dated 1759 was found in the dining room. The nomination regards the house as a rare surviving example of early stone dwellings built by the Scots-Irish settlers of Hanover Township, and as a well-preserved vernacular interpretation of Georgian design. Nearby, a brick summer house built during German ownership in the 1830s is also part of the property's story.","period_of_significance":"1771-1832","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial---Georgian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored after a period of abandonment; the 1954 stone addition and later changes are noted, and the summer house is in use as an office.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.182859-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88002371.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002371/f13c986e6b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002371/f13c986e6b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"RapunzelK","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JohnToddHouse01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">RapunzelK</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JohnToddHouse01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995337","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Todd_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6260960"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/dauphin-county/todd-john-house-88002371/"}