{"nrhp_refnum":"95000125","name":"Jones, Benjamin F., Cottage","other_names":["Braemar Cottage"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Third St., Cresson Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cresson","county":"Cambria County","state":"PA","lat":40.45764025900007,"lon":-78.59129902499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-02-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Braemar (Jones) Cottage is a three-story wood-frame summer house at Cresson Springs, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, built in 1887-1888 on a sandstone rubble foundation. It is one of the cottages of the resort community that grew up around the Mountain House.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cottage is significant for its association with Benjamin Franklin Jones, an iron master and founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company who devised the sliding wage scale. Architecturally, it is described as the most ambitious and most intact survivor of the Queen Anne cottages at the Cresson Springs resort.","narrative":"Built in 1887-1888 at Cresson Springs in the Allegheny Mountains, this three-story wood-frame cottage sits on a sandstone rubble foundation and is clad in a combination of clapboard and shingles. Its Queen Anne design features hipped and gabled roofs, round corner turrets, half-timbered gables, corbelled brick chimneys and a large main stair hall. The cottage was built for Benjamin Franklin Jones, an iron master who helped found the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company and introduced a sliding wage scale tying worker pay to the price of iron. Jones leased Lot 13 in 1887 and paid to move an existing cottage to Lot 12. The resort around the Mountain House drew wealthy Pittsburgh families, and this house is regarded as the grandest and most intact survivor of its late nineteenth-century cottages. Its significance rests on Jones's business career and on its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1887/88 - 1903","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"The north porch has lost most of its original elements, the west porch has been partly enclosed, and the south balcony area is deteriorated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.692899-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/95000125.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000125/96d1ecec3a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000125/96d1ecec3a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_Franklin_Jones_Cottage_front_and_side.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:Benjamin_Franklin_Jones_Cottage_front_and_side.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995184","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Jones_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4888650"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/cambria-county/jones-benjamin-f-cottage-95000125/"}