{"nrhp_refnum":"95001354","name":"Johnson-Hatfield Tavern","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 40, 0.5 mi. E of Brier Hill, Redstone Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brier Hill","county":"Fayette County","state":"PA","lat":39.972241524000026,"lon":-79.82385656499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-11-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-bay, double-pile, two-and-a-half-story stone tavern on U.S. Route 40, about half a mile east of Brier Hill in Redstone Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, built c. 1817, with a one-story stone spring house nearby.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the tavern is significant for its association with the early nineteenth-century commercial development of the National Road. It is also significant as vernacular stone architecture representative of southwestern Pennsylvania. Its surviving form, including the second-floor folding doors that enabled a dance floor, keeps it identifiable as a tavern.","narrative":"Built around 1817 on U.S. Route 40 about half a mile east of Brier Hill in Redstone Township, Fayette County, this five-bay, double-pile stone tavern has a center hall plan, large gable-end chimneys, and a stone spring house of about 12 by 17 feet. Its ashlar front has large quoins at each corner, and the building faces the road as National Road taverns typically did. Stone mason Randolph Dearth is recorded as its builder. Robert Johnson kept the tavern as an innkeeper until 1843 and sold it in 1844 to William Hatfield, a former blacksmith who had made iron gates used on the National Road. Hatfield closed the tavern to the public in 1855. The building is significant for its ties to the early commercial life of the National Road and for its masonry vernacular architecture typical of southwestern Pennsylvania. Later porch and interior changes have been made, but the building keeps its essential tavern form.","period_of_significance":"C. 1817 - C. 1855","architect_builder":"Dearth, Randolph (stone mason)","architectural_style":"Early nineteenth century vernacular","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.150016-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/95001354.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001354/9100d99e13-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001354/9100d99e13-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johnson-Hatfield_Tavern.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:Johnson-Hatfield_Tavern.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992918","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson-Hatfield_Tavern","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6268140"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fayette-county/johnson-hatfield-tavern-95001354/"}