{"nrhp_refnum":"97000292","name":"Thome, James, Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"213 Linnwood Rd., N. Strabane Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Eighty Four","county":"Washington County","state":"PA","lat":40.195668602500035,"lon":-80.15767523125011,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The James Thome Farm is a 190-acre farm with a cluster of farm buildings in rural North Strabane Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, at 213 Linnwood Road near Eighty Four. The complex centres on the Thome House, a stone house begun around 1810 with an 1870s Greek Revival frame wing and a 1950s frame wing.","why_significant":"The farm is significant under Criterion A for its associations with early nineteenth to early twentieth century agriculture in Washington County, reflecting subsistence farming, sheep raising, cash cropping and later dairy farming. It is also significant under Criterion C as an example of how Washington County farms were designed and changed in appearance over the period of significance. The document states that the integrity of the house and farm is somewhat exceptional for the township.","narrative":"Located in North Strabane Township, the Thome Farm is a 190-acre property on Linnwood Road that preserves a grouping of farm buildings spanning nearly 150 years. The centre of the complex is a stone house begun around 1810, with two-bay, two-and-a-half-storey walls of coursed fieldstone reinforced with larger corner stones. An 1870s frame wing in Greek Revival style, with five bays and sidelights around its entrance, was added to the east, and a 1950s wing was built to the west. The farm includes a bank barn with a log substructure, a smokehouse, a silo, a corn crib, a tractor shed, a chicken coop and two ponds. Its significance lies in its illustration of how the county's farms were planned, enlarged and adapted, from subsistence farming through sheep raising to dairy production. Few surviving farms in the township retain both their stone houses and their outbuildings and fields.","period_of_significance":"1800-1947","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian; Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The farm is in use, with the lands worked by the Minor family and the 1950s wing rented to a family member.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.888134-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/97000292.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000292/1700f2a624-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000292/1700f2a624-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Thome_Farmhouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Generic1139</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Thome_Farmhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995421","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Thome_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6144182"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/washington-county/thome-james-farm-97000292/"}