{"nrhp_refnum":"92001496","name":"Crawford, William, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Off jct. of Brown's Ferry Rd. and Stevenson's Ln., Cumberland Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Carmichaels","county":"Greene County","state":"PA","lat":39.894337525000026,"lon":-79.94894584199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-11-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half story, three-bay vernacular full-dovetail log house with weatherboarding, set on a rubblestone foundation, in Cumberland Township near Carmichaels, Greene County, Pennsylvania. It is dated to about 1815 in the form.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an unusually well-preserved early log dwelling from the first period of settlement in Greene County and is the surviving structure most importantly associated with William Crawford, a local political and military leader in the Whiskey Rebellion. Crawford was charged with treason and later acquitted at trial in 1795. The form notes few log houses from this period survive and none in the county can be documented to before 1798.","narrative":"Built around 1815 in Cumberland Township near Carmichaels, Greene County, this two-and-a-half story, three-bay house is a vernacular full-dovetail log structure set on rubblestone, later covered with horizontal weatherboarding. Its hall and parlor plan follows an earlier tradition, with a larger hall serving as the main living room and a smaller parlor for privacy. The interior retains plastered first-floor walls, a Federal-style mantel in the parlor, and unplastered, whitewashed second-floor walls. No twentieth-century heating, plumbing, bathroom or kitchen was added, so the original room arrangement survives. The house is important for its link to William Crawford, a local militia colonel and justice of the peace who represented Cumberland Township at the 1794 Parkinson's Ferry meeting during the Whiskey Rebellion. He was charged with treason after the Braddock's Field gathering and was acquitted at his 1795 trial. The house is one of few surviving log dwellings from its period in southwestern Pennsylvania.","period_of_significance":"C. 1815","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular log dwelling (hall/parlor plan)","criteria":["B","A"],"status_note":"Roof sound; siding and foundation deteriorated; rear kitchen ell partially demolished; no twentieth-century heating or plumbing installed.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.92694-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/92001496.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001496/12eaea60a3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001496/12eaea60a3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Crawford_House.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:William_Crawford_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992998","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crawford_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8007274"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/greene-county/crawford-william-house-92001496/"}