{"nrhp_refnum":"90000702","name":"Stover, Isaac, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"River Rd. S of Geigel Hill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Erwinna","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.49707609600006,"lon":-75.06817824399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-04-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large brick, six-bay, asymmetrical double-pile house with a slate mansard roof on River Road in Tinicum Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, facing the Delaware River. It was built in the 1850s and substantially remodelled in the 1870s in the Second Empire style.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the best preserved examples of ornate Victorian residential architecture, particularly Second Empire, in northeastern Bucks County. It is presented as a physical expression of later nineteenth-century wealth from milling, lumbering and market agriculture tied to the Stover family. Its exterior and interior features, including the mansard roof, bracketed porch and marble mantels, are described as retaining remarkable integrity.","narrative":"Brick house on the west side of River Road in Tinicum Township, facing the Delaware River, built in the 1850s and remodelled in the 1870s in the Second Empire style. Its slate mansard roof has concave sides and three dormers on the front and rear elevations, two on each side, with arched pediments. A bracketed porch with decorative spandrels runs the length of the facade, and the second-story windows have bracketed segmental arched hoods added during the remodelling. Inside, the formal block has a side passage, double parlors with pocket doors, and marble fireplace surrounds. The house was built for or by members of the Stover family, prominent millers and lumbermen in northeastern Bucks County, and the nomination regards it as the best preserved and most ornate example of the style in the area. Its interior woodwork and paired parlor mantels are cited as evidence of the remodelling's integrity. It is also linked to the rise of market agriculture and resource processing along the Delaware and Lehigh Canal in the later nineteenth century.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1850-1880","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Second Empire","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Operating as a bed and breakfast inn since the 1980s, per the document.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.081371-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90000702.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000702/aee67adaae-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000702/aee67adaae-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"PattiParker","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isaac_Stover_House_1.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">PattiParker</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:Isaac_Stover_House_1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995553","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Stover_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15228835"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/stover-isaac-house-90000702/"}