{"nrhp_refnum":"99000327","name":"Harnish, Johannes, Farmstead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Woodfield Crossing, 202","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Lampeter Township","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.00173436700007,"lon":-76.28597767982606,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-03-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead in West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on the east side of US Route 222, with a stone farmhouse built in 1774, a brick Pennsylvania style ancillary dwelling of about 1860, a frame kitchen, a stone springhouse, a frame tobacco shed, the ruins of a stone bank barn and a family burial ground.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farmstead is significant for its evolutionary development as a Lancaster County farm over several generations of one family, and for its largely intact group of buildings from circa 1765 to circa 1925. It states the farmhouse is documented as the work of Lancaster joiners and builders Gottlieb Sehner and John Bachman, and that the site is the only one documented in West Lampeter Township with both a Germanic style farmhouse and a Pennsylvania farmhouse in one grouping.","narrative":"Built on the east side of US Route 222 south of Lancaster city, the Johannes Harnish Farmstead is a group of stone, brick and frame buildings dating from the 1760s to the 1920s. The stone farmhouse bears a datestone reading 1774 and was finished by the joiners Gottlieb Sehner and John Bachman, whose account books record payments for the work. Nearby stand a brick Pennsylvania style dwelling of about 1860, a mid-1800s frame kitchen with a walk-in fireplace, a stone springhouse that may be of the eighteenth century, and a tobacco shed of about 1925 built after fire destroyed the barn. The farmstead was held by one family through several generations, from Johannes Harnish and his wife Anna to later descendants. Its buildings and landscape buffers retain the setting of an older farm despite nearby housing. The nomination regards the grouping as an unusually complete example of how Lancaster County farms changed over time, and it is one of the few places in the township where two regional house types stand side by side.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1765 - ca. 1925","architect_builder":"Sehner, Gottlieb; Bachman, John","architectural_style":"OTHER: Pennsylvania German vernacular","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The farmhouse was rehabilitated in 1958-1960; the barn burned circa 1923 and only its stone ruin remains; the tobacco shed has stable alterations at its east end.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.098494-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/99000327.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000327/d93c126d8f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000327/d93c126d8f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JOHANNES_HARNISH_FARMSTEAD,_LANCASTER_COUNTY,_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:JOHANNES_HARNISH_FARMSTEAD,_LANCASTER_COUNTY,_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993141","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Harnish_Farmstead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6216723"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/harnish-johannes-farmstead-99000327/"}