{"nrhp_refnum":"95001358","name":"Fayette-Springs Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 40, approximately 0.5 mi. E of Chalk Hill, Wharton Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chalk Hill","county":"Fayette County","state":"PA","lat":39.840585273000045,"lon":-79.60989084599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-11-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-bay, double-pile, two-and-a-half story coursed ashlar stone hotel and former tavern on U.S. Route 40 at the foot of Chalk Hill, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, with a kitchen ell extending from the west side.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hotel is significant for its association with the early nineteenth-century commercial development of the National Road and its continued commercial use into the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is also presented as a tavern with notable architectural features, including Federal and Colonial Revival elements, and is described as larger and more elaborately finished than other National Road taverns in Wharton Township.","narrative":"Built around 1822 as a stone hotel on the north side of U.S. Route 40 at the foot of Chalk Hill, the building is a five-bay, double-pile, two-and-a-half story structure with a central hall and a kitchen ell extending from its west side. Local sources attribute its construction to Andrew Stewart, who reportedly intended it as a summer resort serving the nearby Fayette Springs, and the first tavern keeper was Cuthbert Wiggins. Its size and high-style finish set it apart from other taverns along the National Road in the township. Early twentieth-century renovations added Colonial Revival dormers, a porch with Doric columns, and woodwork in both the hall and the first-floor rooms, while retaining Federal-period elements such as a fanlight doorway and curvilinear stair brackets. The hotel is significant for its role in the commercial life of the National Road and for its surviving tavern form and layered architectural features.","period_of_significance":"C. 1822 -C. 1909","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"By the mid-twentieth century the west porch had been enclosed and converted into a barroom; the document describes the building as retaining good integrity overall.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.289636-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/95001358.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001358/b9cc43b47d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001358/b9cc43b47d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fayette_Springs_Hotel.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:Fayette_Springs_Hotel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992910","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayette_Springs_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5439028"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fayette-county/fayette-springs-hotel-95001358/"}