{"nrhp_refnum":"95000128","name":"Thompson, Thomas H., House","other_names":["Wayside Manor"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"815 Water St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brownsville","county":"Fayette County","state":"PA","lat":40.01070115300007,"lon":-79.89606239499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-02-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large three-and-a-half story brick house in the Spanish/Mission/Colonial Revival styles, built in 1906 in the Bridgeport (Southside) section of Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. A two-story carriage house built behind it in 1917-18 is included in the nomination.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an outstanding example of its styles and one of the grandest homes built in Brownsville during the coke-era boom of the early 1900s. Its scale, exterior masonry and wood ornamentation, and lavish interior woodwork and intact bathrooms are cited as the basis for significance. It is also linked to the Thompson family's distilling business and the town's Quaker community.","narrative":"Built in 1906 in Brownsville's Bridgeport section, this three-and-a-half story brick house was designed by Pittsburgh architect Harry Summers Estep and constructed by stonemason Sebastian P. Ramella. It has a red Spanish tile roof, stone-faced dormers, carved stone lintels and quoins, and a three-bay porch on panelled columns with acanthus-carved corbels. Inside, the first floor was built around a sweeping grand stair of quarter-sawn oak, and each room had different parquet floors and mantelpieces. The second floor had ornate mantels in four main bedrooms, woodwork in a different wood in each room, and two bathrooms lined with white tile. The house is regarded as one of the grandest residences built in Brownsville during the coke and whiskey era. A carriage house from 1917-18 stands behind it. The Thompson family, whose distillery business had grown from a farm operation, owned the house until about 1949.","period_of_significance":"1906-1918","architect_builder":"Harry Summers Estep (architect); Sebastian P. Ramella (builder)","architectural_style":"Mission/Spanish/Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored for use as a restaurant with specialty shops planned for the upper floors, after earlier use as a construction company office and a place of worship.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:38.014048-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/95000128.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000128/6d9e360dad-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000128/6d9e360dad-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_H._Thompson_House_angle.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:Thomas_H._Thompson_House_angle.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994795","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H._Thompson_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7790326"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fayette-county/thompson-thomas-h-house-95000128/"}