{"nrhp_refnum":"98001192","name":"Woodmont","other_names":["The Mount of the House of Lord"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1622 Spring Mill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gladwyne","county":"Montgomery County","state":"PA","lat":40.0677876622085,"lon":-75.29370445750654,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-08-05","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1998-08-05","areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History","Religion"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Woodmont is a three-story stone manor house with five secondary buildings on a 73-acre estate on steep bluffs above the Schuylkill River in Gladwyne, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1892-1895 for industrialist Alan Wood Jr. and designed in the French chateau style.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is among the finest and best-preserved chateau-style houses in the country, and that it reflects the wealth of America's industrial elite and the Wood family's iron business. It also cites the estate's later role as headquarters of the Peace Mission movement led by Father and Mother Divine, which began in 1952.","narrative":"Built in the French chateau style on a bluff above the Schuylkill River, Woodmont was designed by William Lightfoot Price and constructed between 1892 and 1895 for Alan Wood Jr., a partner in the family iron and steel business. The house is built of local schist with Indiana limestone trim and has a tiled roof, copper dormers and a great hall rising more than fifty feet, with a carved limestone fireplace. Price drew on Biltmore, George W. Vanderbilt's house in Asheville, North Carolina, which was then under construction, but adapted the design to local stone and a more private scale. The house is regarded as one of the finest examples of its style in the country. The estate also served as the headquarters of the Peace Mission movement from 1952, when it was bought by the Palace Mission. Father Divine's followers used the house as a base for the movement, which was known for feeding and employing people during the Depression and for its integrated congregations.","period_of_significance":"1892-1895, 1952","architect_builder":"William Lightfoot Price (1861-1916), architect","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: French Renaissance","criteria":["A","B","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 17:11:29.195075-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/98001192_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001192/36bc02138e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001192/36bc02138e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Moses King.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodmont_Moses_King_1902.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Moses King.</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodmont_Moses_King_1902.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994197","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodmont_(Gladwyne,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8033113"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montgomery-county/woodmont-98001192/"}