{"nrhp_refnum":"88003050","name":"Smith, Henry, Farm","other_names":["Hidden Spring Farm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"950 Swatara Creek Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Middletown","county":"Dauphin County","state":"PA","lat":40.21277961000004,"lon":-76.71534737199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-12-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A nineteenth-century farm complex on a knoll above the Swatara Creek flood plain near Middletown in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, comprising a brownstone farmhouse built in 1806, a brownstone bank barn built 1845-47, and a rubblestone vaulted cellar. The house and barn are the contributing resources; a later frame wagon shed is noncontributing.","why_significant":"The house is described as one of the best preserved early nineteenth-century brownstone houses in the local area, with interior integrity exceeding comparable local farmhouses. The barn is presented as a well-preserved, representative mid-nineteenth-century bank barn that shows the late stage of stone barn construction, including peck-marked timbers and large ventilators. Together they are said to reflect the German heritage of the builders expressed in internal features.","narrative":"Built of brownstone in 1806 by Henry and Catharine Smith, the farmhouse stands on a small knoll above the Swatara Creek in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Its five-bay, double-pile plan follows the Georgian arrangement, with Federal-style details such as an Adamesque transom, a fluted-column mantel in the west parlor, and fluted balusters on the open stair. A datestone with an inscription in English is set between the eastern second-floor windows. Beside it stands a bank barn of brownstone, completed in 1845-47, with a cantilevered front, extended granaries, and peck marks on its threshing-floor timbers, a German labeling method. A rubblestone vaulted cellar lies southeast of the house. The house is regarded as one of the earliest large brownstone houses in the area, and its interior survives more intact than neighboring farmhouses. The barn shows the late development of stone barn ventilation. Both buildings reflect German building practices combined with the Federal style of the period.","period_of_significance":"1806-1847","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restoration by present owners is described; the house was rehabilitated and the bake oven rebuilt, and the farmhouse was used continuously until the mid-twentieth century.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.005522-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88003050.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88003050/7afca67df4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88003050/7afca67df4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JoeRed","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hidden_Springs_Farm.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JoeRed</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:Hidden_Springs_Farm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996531","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Smith_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5728443"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/dauphin-county/smith-henry-farm-88003050/"}