{"nrhp_refnum":"90001622","name":"Kutz Mill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Kutz Mill Rd. at Sacony Cr., Greenwich Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kutztown","county":"Berks County","state":"PA","lat":40.53428068100007,"lon":-75.80508144505185,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-11-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A stone gristmill with associated farmhouse, summer kitchen, bank barn and outbuildings in rural Greenwich Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, on Sacony Creek beside the Kutz Mill Covered Bridge. The mill was built about 1850 by the Kutz family.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the mill is directly associated with grain milling in Berks County and is an example of a custom mill serving local needs, with its exterior showing its milling function. Its farmhouse, summer kitchen and barn are presented as appropriate adjuncts from a similar period, and the setting next to the covered bridge is cited for scenic quality. The mill is also described as one of the better examples in the county of a small-scale water-powered grain and saw milling system.","narrative":"Built of stone around 1850 by the Kutz family, the gristmill stands on Sacony Creek in rural Greenwich Township, beside the Kutz Mill Covered Bridge, built in 1854. The one and one-half story mill has a hoist hood, vertically aligned loading doors and arched openings for the wheel pit, and retains an open interior with post and beam construction and a large wooden spur gear eight feet in diameter. Early maps list it as the Kutz Mill and later as the Charles Kutz Grist and Saw Mill. It operated as a custom mill serving local farmers until the 1930s. The complex includes a brick farmhouse dated 1855 with a twin-front-door plan typical of Pennsylvania German houses, a stone summer kitchen with a walk-in fireplace, and a stone bank barn with hex signs. Its significance rests on its close relationship with the county's grain milling history and its mostly intact group of mid-nineteenth-century buildings.","period_of_significance":"c. 1850-1935","architect_builder":"Jacob Kutz family (builders of the gristmill)","architectural_style":"Pennsylvania German vernacular (farmhouse, bank barn); mill form not further classified","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Used as a rental property in recent decades; mill was formerly an antiques shop and is used for storage; summer kitchen in poor condition.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:38.160863-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90001622.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001622/5ed006dbe1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001622/5ed006dbe1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"PattiParker","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kutz_mill_2.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:Kutz_mill_2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992394","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutz_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6448690"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/berks-county/kutz-mill-90001622/"}