{"nrhp_refnum":"92000950","name":"Bird-in-Hand Hotel","other_names":["Village Inn of Bird-in-Hand","Rhoad's Hotel"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2695 Old Philadelphia Pike (PA 340), East Lampeter Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bird-in-Hand","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.13380988000006,"lon":-75.96015609499995,"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 three-story brick hotel building in the village of Bird-in-Hand, East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, built in 1852 on the site of earlier taverns along the Old Philadelphia Pike.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hotel is important for its association with village hotels serving the Old Philadelphia Pike and the Pennsylvania Railroad, and as the sole remaining mid-nineteenth-century hotel associated with the railroad in East Lampeter Township. It is also presented as a representative example of local Greek Revival vernacular architecture and a rare survivor of village hotel architecture in the area.","narrative":"Built in 1852 by Benjamin Groff, the Bird-in-Hand Hotel is a three-story brick building beside the Old Philadelphia Pike in the village of Bird-in-Hand, Lancaster County. It occupies the site of several earlier wayside taverns, and it was built to serve travelers on the old road between Lancaster and Philadelphia as well as passengers using the Pennsylvania Railroad, which reached the village in the 1850s. Its symmetrical five-bay facade has a second-story porch with Tuscan columns, sheltered entrances, six-over-six sash windows and shutters. The interior keeps Greek Revival trim, shouldered door surrounds, original fireplace mantels and a principal staircase with turned newel posts. The hotel is significant for its association with village hotels that served commerce and the railroad in the mid-nineteenth century, and as a representative local example of Greek Revival vernacular architecture. The building is regarded as having very good integrity.","period_of_significance":"1852-1939","architect_builder":"Benjamin Groff built the present hotel in 1852; no architect is named.","architectural_style":"MID 19TH CENTURY: Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated in 1989 and kept in use as a hotel and pub; the form notes the property continued in use as a local pub and occasionally as a hotel into the 1930s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.79663-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/92000950.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000950/e6cd0c4df0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000950/e6cd0c4df0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bird_in_Hand_Hotel_LanCo_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</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:Bird_in_Hand_Hotel_LanCo_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994682","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird-in-Hand_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4915818"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/bird-in-hand-hotel-92000950/"}