{"nrhp_refnum":"89000353","name":"Taylor, Peter, Farmstead","other_names":["Shull Farm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"229 Wrights Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newtown","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.25446101400007,"lon":-74.93493878999993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-05-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead in Newtown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, consisting of a stone farmhouse and a frame-over-stone bank barn dating to the 18th century, with several later outbuildings. It is listed as a district.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farmhouse and barn are important examples of mid-18th century vernacular farm architecture in lower-central Bucks County, with a house form and barn type that were locally popular and are now comparatively rare. The house shows how a 1715 cabin was rebuilt in stone and expanded over time, and the barn is described as one of the few surviving frame mid-18th century barns in the county.","narrative":"Along a farm lane in Newtown Township, Bucks County, the Peter Taylor Farmstead centres on a stone farmhouse begun around 1750 and a frame bank barn of the same period. The house is two stories, four bays wide and two rooms deep, built of local sandstone with ashlar walls and segmental arches. It incorporates a cabin dated around 1715 that was rebuilt in stone around 1800, and a second story added in 1842 by stonemason Lambert Hibbs. The interior retains 18th-century paneling, winding stairs and an attic finished in hand-planed pine. The barn, framed in four bays over fieldstone stabling and set into an earthen bank, is among the few surviving frame barns of its period in Bucks County. Its four-bay plan is unusual for the region. The complex was assessed as a district, with later outbuildings counted as non-contributing.","period_of_significance":"1750-1860","architect_builder":"Peter Taylor (builder of the c1750 house section and barn section); Lambert Hibbs (stonemason, 1842 upper stories); William Shull (c1940 wing)","architectural_style":"Colonial English farmhouse; vernacular stone house and frame bank barn","criteria":["C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.319272-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/89000353.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000353/e8d14d8361-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000353/e8d14d8361-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Taylor_Farmhouse,_PA_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Shuvaev</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:Peter_Taylor_Farmhouse,_PA_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996751","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Taylor_Farmstead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7177266"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/taylor-peter-farmstead-89000353/"}