{"nrhp_refnum":"96000088","name":"Little, Moses, Tavern","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"438 E. National Pike, Amwell Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Laboratory","county":"Washington County","state":"PA","lat":40.14951948800007,"lon":-80.18828500799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-02-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half story brick tavern on U.S. Route 40 (the National Road) in Amwell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, one and a half miles west of South Strabane. It was built in two stages, c. 1840 and c. 1845.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its association with the early nineteenth-century commercial development of the National Road, as one of the surviving taverns on that route. It also holds architectural significance as a vernacular Greek Revival building whose floor plan and kitchen ell still identify it as a tavern.","narrative":"Built in two sections around 1840 and 1845 on U.S. Route 40 in Amwell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, the Moses Little Tavern is a two-and-a-half story brick building sited about sixty feet from the road on a sandstone and rubblestone foundation. The original three-bay block has a kitchen ell to the rear, and the four-bay eastern addition contains a barroom with front and rear entrances. Its pedimented gable, side-lit front door and tripartite window reflect the Greek Revival style in a vernacular form. Moses Little, a wagoner, kept a wagon stand here, and the building is the only one documented to survive among the roughly thirty National Road taverns in Amwell Township. Later alterations include a rebuilt west gable wall, removed chimneys and replaced windows, but the building is still regarded as conveying its early nineteenth-century significance tied to the National Road.","period_of_significance":"C. 1840-c. 1853","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Western gable wall rebuilt in the late twentieth century, chimneys removed, and windows replaced; a modern trailer stands on the east side and a frame shed on the west.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.695117-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/96000088.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000088/75283b04e3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000088/75283b04e3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Matthew Newberg","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moses_Little_Tavern-0690.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Newberg</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:Moses_Little_Tavern-0690.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993983","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Little_Tavern","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6915859"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/washington-county/little-moses-tavern-96000088/"}