{"nrhp_refnum":"98000443","name":"Rex, John, Farm","other_names":["Goodwin--Strickler Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"0.5 mi. E of Jefferson on PA 188","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jefferson","county":"Greene County","state":"PA","lat":39.93953438400004,"lon":-80.04973269483821,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-05-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 71-acre farmstead on the north side of Route 188, about half a mile east of Jefferson Borough in Greene County, Pennsylvania, centred on the Rex House, a 1½-story frame house with outbuildings including a summer kitchen, barn, carriage house and smokehouse.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farmhouse is a vernacular Gothic Revival dwelling influenced by nineteenth-century pattern book designs, and that the house and its supporting outbuildings reflect the county's farming history. It states the farm retains excellent integrity, with few comparable farms in the county keeping their character.","narrative":"Set on a flat plain beside Ten Mile Creek near Jefferson, Greene County, the Rex Farm centres on a 1½-story frame house with a central hall plan, a rear kitchen ell and steeply pitched gables with decorated barge boards. The house is regarded as a vernacular example of Gothic Revival style, with its layout and detailing drawn from pattern books by Andrew Jackson Downing and others. Construction is dated to about 1874, with a summer kitchen from about 1865 and outbuildings from about 1870. The house retains walnut trim, plaster walls and original wood floors beneath carpet. Its farm setting includes a wrought iron fence from about 1910, about 27 acres of hay fields and about 44 acres of wooded land. The property is significant for its architecture and for its surviving farmstead, which reflects the sheep and mixed farming that shaped the county from the 1860s to 1910.","period_of_significance":"C. 1865-1910","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"In use as a farm, with fields cut for hay; the summer kitchen was converted into an office in the 1990s restoration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.334179-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/98000443.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000443/393d5fb7ad-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000443/393d5fb7ad-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Rex_Farm.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:John_Rex_Farm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995953","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rex_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6254649"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/greene-county/rex-john-farm-98000443/"}