{"nrhp_refnum":"94001063","name":"Habeck, Christian, Farm","other_names":["Brubaker,Abraham,Farm","071-19-0088"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2301 Spring Valley Rd., East Hempfield Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.08154533800004,"lon":-76.36777824007554,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 90-acre working farmstead on the northwest corner of US Route 30 and Rohrerstown Road in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, centered on a brick farmhouse and a frame Pennsylvania bank barn. The complex includes a tenant house, tobacco barns, a summer kitchen, pigsty, creamery and springhouse.","why_significant":"The farm is significant under Criteria A and C as an example of the historic farm type in Lancaster County. The farmhouse is described as an excellent example of a late nineteenth-century Pennsylvania style farmhouse with Victorian interior elements, and the bank barn retains good integrity. The complex has kept its agricultural and architectural character despite surrounding suburban development.","narrative":"Along Spring Valley Road in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the Christian Habecker Farm is a working farmstead of about 90 acres. Its centerpiece is a two-and-a-half story brick farmhouse dating to 1876, with a five-bay facade, a shed porch and a datestone recording an earlier 1795 house on the site. A frame bank barn rebuilt in 1869 stands across the road, and the complex also includes a brick tenant house, two frame tobacco barns, a summer kitchen, a pigsty, a creamery and a springhouse. The property was farmed by the Habecker family from 1853 onward, and its buildings reflect that long occupancy. Its significance rests on the farmhouse's typical late nineteenth-century Lancaster County form and interior detailing, and on the bank barn's intact design. The farm has kept its agricultural function and much of its historic character amid the suburban growth around it.","period_of_significance":"1869-1945","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Pennsylvania style farmhouse; Pennsylvania bank barn","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still under cultivation as a working farm; the farmhouse is described as in good condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.736287-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/94001063.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001063/0278ea5cd1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001063/0278ea5cd1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CHRISTIAN_HABECK_FARM,_EAST_HEMPFIELD_TWP._LANCASTER_COUNTY,_LA.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_HABECK_FARM,_EAST_HEMPFIELD_TWP._LANCASTER_COUNTY,_LA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993131","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Habeck_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5109663"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/habeck-christian-farm-94001063/"}