{"nrhp_refnum":"92000948","name":"Miller's Store","other_names":["Trent House and General Store","Trenthouse Inn and Country Sto"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of PA 3029 and PA 3033, Middlecreek Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Trent","county":"Somerset County","state":"PA","lat":39.985939563000045,"lon":-79.24071601299994,"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 two-story Queen Anne style general store and hotel in the community of Trent, in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania, known today as the Trenthouse Inn and Country Store. It was built in 1884 and enlarged with a hotel section in 1895.","why_significant":"The building is argued to have been the commercial and social center of the Trent farming community in the late 19th century, providing goods, postal service, lodging and a meeting place. Its Queen Anne ornamentation and scale are described as unusual among the plain vernacular buildings of the area.","narrative":"Built in 1884 as a two-story store with a hexagonal corner tower and encircling porch, this U-shaped building in the Trent area of Somerset County later gained a hotel wing in 1895. It served as a general merchandise store, post office and inn for a farming community deep in the Laurel Highlands, supplying dry goods, feed, ice and overnight rooms. Local politics also met here, and a political meeting held at the store led to the community taking the name Trent. Its Queen Anne ornament and massive scale set it apart from the plain vernacular buildings nearby, and the hotel interior keeps original oak flooring, beaded ceilings, a carved stair and a cherry cupboard. The building is listed for its commercial history from the 1880s into the 1940s and for its architectural distinction within its region. Its surviving 500-gallon attic cistern is also noted as an example of late 19th century plumbing.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1884-1940","architect_builder":"Mognet, Newton (builder); Mognet, W.H. (builder); Mognet, C.N. (builder)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still operating as a grocery store and bed-and-breakfast inn; the store area was substantially modernized and a rear addition was built after 1950.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.957077-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/92000948.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000948/c30064afe0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000948/c30064afe0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miller%27s_Store.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Generic1139</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:Miller%27s_Store.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998380","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%27s_Store","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6859007"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/somerset-county/millers-store-92000948/"}