{"nrhp_refnum":"89001787","name":"Linden Hall at Saint James Park","other_names":["Linden Hall"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"RR 26051 NW of Dawson","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dawson","county":"Fayette County","state":"PA","lat":40.066635092500036,"lon":-79.6954869900319,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-10-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Linden Hall is a thirty-one room Tudor Revival stone and stucco mansion on the high point of the St. James Park estate near Dawson in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, built between 1909 and 1911 for Sarah Boyd Moore Cochran, with an attached garage and terraced garden, pool and pool pavilion.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is locally significant architecturally for its size, grandeur and rural setting, and as an unusually large domestic work by Pittsburgh architect Joseph Kuntz, whose reputation rested mainly on commercial and industrial design. It also cites its masonry and steel construction, including hollow clay tile floors and walls, as an early adaptation of industrial materials to a country house.","narrative":"Linden Hall is a Tudor Revival mansion of thirty-one rooms on a high point of the St. James Park estate near Dawson, Fayette County. Sarah Boyd Moore Cochran had it built between 1909 and 1911 on an estate of roughly 700 acres, and it was her home until her death in 1936. The two and a half story house is faced in quarried stone below a wooden cornice and in white stucco above it, and it is laid out in a broad crescent opening to a circular entrance drive. Its interior includes an Aeolian pipe organ, Tiffany Studio stained glass in the stair bay, and murals painted in 1913 by H. L. Dahler. Its masonry and steel structure, with hollow clay tile floors and walls, was unusual for a residence of the period. The nomination treats it as the largest country house of its kind outside the Pittsburgh area and as the only identified domestic work by architect Joseph Kuntz, which gives it local importance.","period_of_significance":"1911-1936","architect_builder":"Joseph Franklin Kuntz (architect)","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Roof replaced in the late 1970s; the frame house was demolished in the late 1970s; a water tower was destroyed by fire in the mid-1980s; the property was used as a country club and later owned by the United Steelworkers of America.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.159009-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/89001787.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001787/7a35bde109-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001787/7a35bde109-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"edenpictures","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linden_Hall_at_Saint_James_Park.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">edenpictures</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linden_Hall_at_Saint_James_Park.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996347","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linden_Hall_at_Saint_James_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15242402"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fayette-county/linden-hall-at-saint-james-park-89001787/"}