{"nrhp_refnum":"92000943","name":"Given, James, Tavern","other_names":["Two Mile House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1189 Walnut Bottom Rd., S. Middleton Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Carlisle","county":"Cumberland County","state":"PA","lat":40.18091895400005,"lon":-77.21934365999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-07-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-bay, two-and-a-half story, double-pile limestone house with a central passage, built as a tavern on the Walnut Bottom Road in South Middleton Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. It is also known as the Two Mile House.","why_significant":"The house is regarded as an excellently preserved Federal style building with fine architectural detailing and intact interior woodwork, mantels and stair. It also served as a tavern on the Walnut Bottom Road, an important route from Carlisle toward Shippensburg, during the first half of the nineteenth century. The document notes it is unusual among the area's early stone taverns for its post-1800 construction and its architectural integrity.","narrative":"Built in the early nineteenth century of local limestone on the Walnut Bottom Road in South Middleton Township, the James Given Tavern is a five-bay, double-pile house of two and a half stories with a central passage. James Given owned the property from 1816 until his death in 1841, and a tax assessment of 1826 records a tavern stand on the land. The building was known as the Two Mile House on an 1858 county atlas, and tavern use appears to have ended in 1857 when it was sold. The house keeps its exterior Federal character, including six-over-six sash windows and a Doric portico of about 1840 moved from a house in Carlisle. Inside, eight Federal mantels, a formal staircase, panelled window reveals and a kitchen ell with its original cooking fireplace survive. The house is valued for its architectural detailing and its preservation, and for its link to the travel trade on the Walnut Bottom Road.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1820-1857","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Retains its Federal-era appearance; the 1920s addition is in place and the building is occupied as a residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:38.040684-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/92000943.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000943/b091b979a0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000943/b091b979a0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JAMES_GIVEN_TAVERN,_CUMBERLAND_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JAMES_GIVEN_TAVERN,_CUMBERLAND_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994907","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Given_Tavern","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6134660"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/cumberland-county/given-james-tavern-92000943/"}