{"nrhp_refnum":"96001314","name":"Reyer, Peter and Catherine, Farmhouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Trout Run Rd., W of jct. with PA 272","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ephrata","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.19422238300007,"lon":-76.17870290999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story limestone Germanic farmhouse in Ephrata Township, north of the Borough of Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, dated by a datestone to 1792 and substantially remodeled circa 1875 into a Pennsylvania style farmhouse. It sits on a 10-acre tract that was subdivided from a former 55-acre farm.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant under Criterion C as the only documented example in Ephrata Township of an 18th-century Germanic farmhouse converted into a Pennsylvania style farmhouse. It is also described as a rare example of its building type and as retaining excellent integrity from its circa 1875 period.","narrative":"Built in 1792 as a two-story limestone Germanic bank house in Ephrata Township, north of Ephrata, Lancaster County, the farmhouse was given a datestone reading \"P. & C./Reyer/17/92\" that records its construction by Peter and Catherine Reyer. Around 1875 it was extensively remodeled into a Pennsylvania style farmhouse with a symmetrical four-bay facade, paired entrances, a lateral gable roof and a four-room plan with a central enclosed stair. The original plan is still legible in the basement, where a masonry partition survives, and in flat stone arches and filled openings on the west and north walls. The house is considered the only documented example in Ephrata Township of this kind of conversion. The surrounding farm was worked until the late 1980s, and the property retains a large open setting despite nearby suburban development.","period_of_significance":"1792-1875","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Germanic bank house; Pennsylvania style farmhouse","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The main farmhouse is in generally fair condition; the circa 1930 frame addition collapsed and was removed.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:35.614344-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/96001314.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001314/95c35ad893-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001314/95c35ad893-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reyer_Farmhouse_LanCo_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reyer_Farmhouse_LanCo_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993139","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_Catherine_Reyer_Farmhouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7177864"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/reyer-peter-and-catherine-farmhouse-96001314/"}