{"nrhp_refnum":"93001470","name":"Mauer, Dr. Joseph House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"97 W. Wheeling St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Washington","county":"Washington County","state":"PA","lat":40.169064717000026,"lon":-80.24753568499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-12-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story brick house with a mansard roof at 97 West Wheeling Street in Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania, with a 1 1/2-story kitchen ell and a contributing two-story frame carriage house at 50 South Franklin Street. The house dates to circa 1850 and was remodeled in 1896 as a Second Empire style house.","why_significant":"The house is significant for architecture as an elegant late nineteenth-century house and office at the edge of downtown Washington. It is described as one of few Second Empire houses/offices still intact in central Washington, and as one of few mansarded houses in the city that survives without major changes. Its 1896 transformation of a Greek Revival house reflects the broader growth and remodeling of Washington in that era.","narrative":"Built circa 1850 as a symmetrical center-hall brick house with a rear kitchen ell, the property at the northeast corner of West Wheeling and Franklin Streets in Washington was transformed in 1896 for Dr. Joseph W. Maurer, a homeopathic physician who had purchased the former First Baptist Church parsonage in 1893. The remodeling added a two-and-a-half-story brick wing to the facade, a mansard roof with slate shingles and dormers, one-over-one sash windows, and rock-faced stone lintels. The house combined his medical office and family living quarters. Its interior retains 1896 woodwork with painted grain imitating several woods, distinct mantels at each of seven fireplaces, and a stair with a stained-glass landing window. The house is regarded as one of few mansarded houses in Washington to survive with its character largely intact, and as one of few surviving combined home-and-office buildings in central Washington. The carriage house was converted to a dwelling around 1920.","period_of_significance":"C. 1896-1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Second Empire","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house was restored in 1986 and operates as an antique store.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.845025-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/93001470.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001470/40d3b27b27-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001470/40d3b27b27-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lee Paxton (Original uploader was Leepaxton at en.wikipedia)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr.JosephMaurerHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Paxton (Original uploader was Leepaxton at en.wikipedia)</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:Dr.JosephMaurerHouse.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100005206","name":"Washington Commercial Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/washington-commercial-historic-district-100005206/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998538","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Joseph_Maurer_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5304217"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/washington-county/mauer-dr-joseph-house-93001470/"}