{"nrhp_refnum":"94001059","name":"Herr, Christian and Emma, Farm","other_names":["71-60-0022"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2131 and 2133 South View Rd., West Lampeter Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":39.97144688650005,"lon":-76.23623913266174,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 99.9-acre working farm on the east side of South View Road, south of Penn Grant Road and the village of Willow Street in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with a brick farmhouse dated 1867, a brick tenant dwelling dated 1864, a stone end bank barn dated 1761, and several frame outbuildings.","why_significant":"The farm is argued to be a representative example of a typical Lancaster County agricultural complex with architectural elements dating from the eighteenth century onward. It has remained in branches of one family since its construction, and its farmhouses are described as representative mid nineteenth-century Pennsylvania style farmhouses.","narrative":"Located on the east side of South View Road, south of the village of Willow Street, this farmstead in Lancaster County centres on a two-and-a-half-storey brick farmhouse built in 1867 by Christian and Emma Herr, according to its datestone. A brick tenant dwelling across the farm lane bears a datestone of 1864 for C. and Susanna Herr. The farm's oldest building is a stone end bank barn dated 1761 by a painted tablet in its gable, making it one of the earliest structures in the area. Other contributing resources include a circa 1890 summer kitchen, a tobacco barn built in 1907, and a frame shed assembled in phases from about 1900 to 1920. The property is significant for its representation of a typical Lancaster agricultural complex that has evolved over more than a century and a half. It has been held by members of the Herr family since the eighteenth century, and it continues to operate as a working farm with tobacco and dairy production.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1761-1945","architect_builder":"Christian and Emma Herr (farmhouse builders, per datestone); C. and Susanna Herr (tenant dwelling builders, per datestone)","architectural_style":"Pennsylvania style farmhouse; Pennsylvania bank barn","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as a working farm in generally good condition, with an active dairy and tobacco operation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:35.961776-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/94001059.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001059/d983d0bdf8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001059/d983d0bdf8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CHRISTIAN_AND_EMMA_HERR_FARM.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:CHRISTIAN_AND_EMMA_HERR_FARM.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993133","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_and_Emma_Herr_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5110301"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/herr-christian-and-emma-farm-94001059/"}