{"nrhp_refnum":"99000514","name":"Oak Hill Estate","other_names":["Mt. St. Macrina","Fox Hill"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 40, 0.25 mi. W of US 119","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Union Township","county":"Fayette County","state":"PA","lat":39.92028794400005,"lon":-79.7390203708614,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-05-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Oak Hill is a three-story Neoclassical Revival brick mansion and estate on a hill north of the National Road, northwest of Uniontown in central Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1903 by coal and land speculator J. V. Thompson and now serves as a religious retreat center.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the estate is significant for its association with J. V. Thompson, a regional coal and coke figure whose career rose and collapsed with the industry, and for its architecture, which it says was designed by Chicago architect Daniel Burnham and his brother-in-law Ernest Woodyatt. It is presented as an expression of the ostentatious wealth of the coal and coke era. The estate's landscape and outbuildings are described as largely intact from the 1903-1933 period.","narrative":"Oak Hill is a three-story brick Neoclassical Revival mansion set on a hilltop north of the National Road, northwest of Uniontown in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Coal and land speculator J. V. Thompson built it in 1903, and the house has forty-two rooms and a massive front portico with stone balustrades. Chicago architect Daniel Burnham oversaw the project, and Ernest Woodyatt completed the design. The estate is significant for its architecture and for its link to Thompson, who built his fortune on coal land rights and headed the First National Bank of Uniontown until its closure in 1915. His collapse mirrored the wider decline of the coke region. The surrounding stone wall, gates, outbuildings and landscape remain from the period of significance, which ends in 1933 with Thompson's death. Since then the sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great have used the property for religious retreats.","period_of_significance":"1903-1933","architect_builder":"Woodyatt, Ernest; Burnham, Daniel","architectural_style":"Neoclassical Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Now used as a religious retreat center by the Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.922465-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/99000514.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000514/d8ceaf43bc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000514/d8ceaf43bc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oak_Hill_Estate_and_west_gate.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Generic1139</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oak_Hill_Estate_and_west_gate.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996818","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Saint_Macrina","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6923415"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fayette-county/oak-hill-estate-99000514/"}