{"nrhp_refnum":"94000006","name":"Douglas, John S., House","other_names":["Dolfi Funeral Home"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"136 N. Gallatin Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Uniontown","county":"Fayette County","state":"PA","lat":39.90468109100004,"lon":-79.72276995799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-02-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story red brick house in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, on North Gallatin Avenue, built in 1901 in Richardsonian Romanesque style with Chateauesque elements. It has a 1967 rear addition and is now part of a funeral home.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its interior and exterior architecture, including intact front-room woodwork, plasterwork and a circular staircase, and for its association with John S. Douglas, a Uniontown realtor and civic leader who was active in coal land deals during the Klondike coal boom. It also notes the house was built during the peak year of Uniontown's building boom and is one of few surviving houses from that period.","narrative":"Built in 1901 on North Gallatin Avenue in Uniontown, this two-and-a-half-story brick house combines Richardsonian Romanesque massing with Chateauesque detail. Its wraparound porch rests on brick columns, a carved-lion entrance stair leads to a convex three-sided bay, and a round turret marks one corner. The interior is noted for its front rooms, including a center hall finished in fiddleback maple, a circular staircase, and parlors with art nouveau plasterwork and mantelpieces. John S. Douglas, a realtor and civic leader, had the house built during Uniontown's peak building year and was active in coal land deals in Pennsylvania and West Virginia during the Klondike boom. Later owners altered the roof, dormers and carriage house, and a 1967 rear addition was made when the house became a funeral home. The house is regarded as one of the few surviving examples of this boom-era residential architecture in the city.","period_of_significance":"1901-1917","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Richardsonian Romanesque with Chateauesque elements","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Now part of a funeral home; a 1967 rear addition was built by a later funeral director.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.948374-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/94000006.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000006/bc40534c36-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000006/bc40534c36-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_S._Douglas_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_S._Douglas_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998412","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Douglas_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6256233"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fayette-county/douglas-john-s-house-94000006/"}