{"nrhp_refnum":"95000116","name":"Peters-Graham House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of Walnut and Second Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Greene County","state":"PA","lat":39.79273515600005,"lon":-79.91288883999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-03-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-story vernacular house on the corner of Walnut and Second streets in Greensboro, Greene County, Pennsylvania, consisting of a c. 1859 single-pen log house with a mid to late 19th-century timber frame addition on its south gable end.","why_significant":"The house is regarded as a rare surviving small worker's dwelling associated with the Greensboro-New Geneva pottery industry and as a representative example of a small vernacular house tied to an African-American family from the Civil War period to 1900. It is significant under the industry and ethnic heritage areas and for its vernacular architecture, with the nomination arguing it retains enough integrity to convey its nineteenth-century character.","narrative":"Built on the corner of Walnut and Second streets in Greensboro, Pennsylvania, the Peters/Graham House began as a single-pen log house of about 1859, to which a timber frame addition of similar single-pen form was later attached on the south gable end. Both sections are one story under a shallow pitched roof. Robert Peters, an African-American man, is named as its builder and is recorded in tax and census records of the 1850s through 1870s as associated with the Greensboro potteries, reportedly working as a laborer at a pottery. The house remained in the Peters family and their descendants for most of the period up to 1939, and it has been continuously owned by one African-American family from the late 1850s to the present. It is listed for its association with the regional stoneware industry, which peaked in the 1870s and 1880s, and for its small vernacular form, which the nomination describes as rare among surviving houses of its era. Its interior is simple, with a fireplace that has a late nineteenth-century Victorian-influenced surround and a coal grate.","period_of_significance":"c.1859-c.1800","architect_builder":"Robert Peters (builder)","architectural_style":"Other: Vernacular","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Historic and current condition is described: asphalt shingles cover the house from the mid-twentieth century, a kitchen addition replaced the earlier log kitchen, and modern windows and sheathing have been added.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.231912-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/95000116.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000116/ccec11a904-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000116/ccec11a904-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peters-Graham_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Generic1139</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:Peters-Graham_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992996","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peters-Graham_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7178099"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/greene-county/peters-graham-house-95000116/"}