{"nrhp_refnum":"96001211","name":"Doak-Little House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 40 .5 mi. W of S. Strabane","address_restricted":false,"city":"South Strabane Twp.","county":"Washington County","state":"PA","lat":40.142840214000046,"lon":-80.17380754399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-04-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half story, five-bay brick house with a kitchen ell, set about thirty-five feet off the north side of U.S. Route 40 about a half mile west of South Strabane in South Strabane Township, Washington County. It was built around 1850 and is associated with the National Road.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its association with the early nineteenth-century development of the National Road, as one of the surviving associated dwellings and the only one documented to survive in South Strabane Township. It is also regarded as an example of vernacular Greek Revival architecture, with its floor plan and interior woodwork largely intact.","narrative":"Built around 1850 on U.S. Route 40 in South Strabane Township, Washington County, this two-and-a-half story brick house has five bays, a rear kitchen ell, and a low pitched roof with boxed cornices. It stands on the old National Road, and its front faces the road, a typical arrangement for dwellings linked to that route. The site had earlier held a large frame tavern called the Upland House, which Joseph Doak replaced with a brick building after buying the tract in 1849. Later owner John H. Little farmed the land. The house is important for its link to National Road transportation history and for its vernacular Greek Revival character. Its I-house plan, central hall and staircase, and molded surrounds survive on the first floor, and the front door has narrow sidelights and a transom. Changes include mid-twentieth-century first-floor windows and a glass-block stair window. A contributing 1879 brick tenant house stands nearby.","period_of_significance":"C. 1850-c. 1880","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","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 17:11:37.527289-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/96001211.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001211/e5a16e71a8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001211/e5a16e71a8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doak-Little_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:Doak-Little_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993985","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doak%E2%80%93Little_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5286464"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/washington-county/doak-little-house-96001211/"}