{"nrhp_refnum":"96001207","name":"Hair, Matthew, Farm","other_names":["Shaulis, Clavin, Farm","Fruit Crest"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Off PA 601, 1 mi. N of Boswell","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hollsopple","county":"Somerset County","state":"PA","lat":40.18098271950004,"lon":-79.00290384047705,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-10-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 110-acre farm in rural Jenner Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, about a quarter mile east of the SR 601 and T-747 (Shaulis Lane) intersection, one mile north of Boswell. Its centerpiece is a brick vernacular Georgian-influenced house built in 1817, with a circa 1870 German-influenced bank barn and a circa 1850 kitchen/spring house.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is significant under Criterion A for its association with early nineteenth to early twentieth century agriculture in Somerset County, and under Criterion C as an example of how county farms were designed and changed over time. It states the buildings and lands still evoke the feeling of the early to mid-nineteenth century. The brick house is described as an early Somerset County example of its type, and the farm is described as highly intact.","narrative":"Located in rural Jenner Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, the Hair Farm covers 110 acres of open fields, woodland and a small spring-fed stream. Its central building is a 2½-story brick house dated 1817 by a circular date stone in the east gable bearing the initials M. H., for builder Matthew Hair. The house has a central-passage plan, a shed-roofed front porch, and original four-light transoms and six-over-six sash. Alongside it stand a circa 1870 German-influenced bank barn and a circa 1850 kitchen and spring house, with a windmill-fed cistern on the highest point of the property. The farm is regarded as a clear record of how Somerset County farms evolved from preindustrial subsistence through the nineteenth century. Its brick house is also described as one of only a few early nineteenth-century brick houses still known in the county.","period_of_significance":"1817-1946","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The farm has been in continuous operation and was placed under soil conservation in 1987; the cistern and windmill no longer function.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:38.134628-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/96001207.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001207/3b1cad8f42-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001207/3b1cad8f42-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matthew_Hair_Farm_House.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:Matthew_Hair_Farm_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995890","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hair_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15251798"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/somerset-county/hair-matthew-farm-96001207/"}