{"nrhp_refnum":"96000708","name":"Kastner, Jacob, Loghouse","other_names":["Tax Parcel #39-00-02989-00-5"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"416 Norristown Rd., Lower Gwynedd Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Spring House","county":"Montgomery County","state":"PA","lat":40.18022301900004,"lon":-75.21345085799999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-07-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one and a half story log house on the south side of Norristown Road in Spring House, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, built circa 1712-1754 with a stone cellar and later additions to the south and east.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a locally significant, largely intact example of eighteenth-century log house construction in Lower Gwynedd Township and one of the few such houses surviving in Montgomery County. It states that the original log section has been only minimally changed and that it blends English plan elements with German building technology.","narrative":"Built circa 1712-1754 in Spring House, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, the Kastner log house is a one and a half story structure with an English single pen plan, fifteen by sixteen and a half feet, set on a stone cellar. Its hewn, V-notched logs, rubble-stone chinking and fireplace built within the log walls survive largely intact. Later additions were built to the south and east between about 1890 and 1979, but the original cabin has been only minimally altered. The house is regarded as a locally significant example of early Welsh settlement building, and one of the few such houses left in Montgomery County. Its combination of English plan and German construction methods is considered rare for the period. A stone-lined well, roughly thirty-two feet deep, lies beneath the kitchen and is viewable under glass.","period_of_significance":"c. 1712-1754","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"English single pen plan log house with German building technology; vernacular","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The property is in excellent condition and the additions are sympathetic to it.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.551566-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/96000708.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000708/1c6a5cc9bb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000708/1c6a5cc9bb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_Kastner_Loghouse.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Shuvaev</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:Jacob_Kastner_Loghouse.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998221","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Kastner_Loghouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6118838"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montgomery-county/kastner-jacob-loghouse-96000708/"}