{"nrhp_refnum":"94000209","name":"Hannastown Farm","other_names":["Steel,William,Farm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NW of jct. of T825 and PA 64054, Salem Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Forbes Road","county":"Westmoreland County","state":"PA","lat":40.354499225500035,"lon":-79.50674602281686,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic farm complex of the Steel family on Forbes Road in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, comprising a brick Italianate farmhouse, a bank barn, a kitchen house, a springhouse and related outbuildings on about 242 acres. The mansion house was built in 1866-67 by William Steel, and the bank barn in 1868.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is significant under Criterion A for its association with the introduction of pure-bred Durham Shorthorn cattle to Westmoreland County, and under Criterion C for its intact collection of mid-19th-century domestic and agricultural buildings and its Italianate vernacular house. It is described as an unusually complete example of a progressive farm of its period, and its fields and farm roads remain largely unaltered.","narrative":"Brick farm complex on Forbes Road in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, built between 1866 and 1868 by William Steel and his wife Sarah Jane Steel. The main house is a two-and-a-half-story vernacular farmhouse with Italianate detailing, laid in three-wythe brick on a sandstone foundation, with a slate roof and a copper lantern. Its interior retains walnut stair elements, marble mantels and original pine second-floor floors. The complex includes a red brick kitchen house, a springhouse and a 100-by-50-foot bank barn with a timber queen post roof framed in chamfered oak. Steel was credited with introducing pure-bred Durham Shorthorn cattle to the county, and the farm sustained a large herd of them at its peak in the late nineteenth century. The property is significant for its agricultural history and for its architecture, which the nomination describes as unusually intact for a farm of this period, with its fields and buildings largely unchanged.","period_of_significance":"1866-1943","architect_builder":"William Steel (builder)","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Sold in 1992 to private owners who were rehabilitating the house and stabilizing the barns and outbuildings.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.474989-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/94000209.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000209/892a52d672-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000209/892a52d672-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HANNASTOWN_FARM,_WESTMORELAND_COUNTY,_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</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:HANNASTOWN_FARM,_WESTMORELAND_COUNTY,_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998037","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannastown_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5649030"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/westmoreland-county/hannastown-farm-94000209/"}