{"nrhp_refnum":"99000608","name":"Welles, Ellen and Charles F., House","other_names":["The Old Red House","Homer P. Dean Funeral Home"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1 Grovedale Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wyalusing Township","county":"Bradford County","state":"PA","lat":41.66040995000003,"lon":-76.25704567712047,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-05-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Ellen and Charles F. Welles House, known locally as \"The Old Red House,\" is a brick and frame mansion on a delta at the junction of the east branch of the Susquehanna River and Wyalusing Creek, about one-half mile southeast of Wyalusing Borough, Wyalusing Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. The brick section dates from 1822 and a frame Queen Anne addition from 1894, with barns and farm buildings also included.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a large and early brick dwelling for the region, built in 1822 when Wyalusing was still a log village, and an unusual transitional Greek Revival example. It also ties the house to the commercial enterprises of Charles Fisher Welles and his family, including milling, lumbering, canal and railroad interests. The 1894 addition by J.Q. Ingham is described as merging two styles in relative harmony.","narrative":"Built in 1822 on a delta where the Susquehanna River meets Wyalusing Creek, this brick house was among the largest dwellings in the region for its time, and its interior plan of a full-depth central hall survives in the brick section. Charles Fisher Welles, a lawyer and county official, lived there and ran business interests from its northeast office, which included a grist mill, a rope ferry, a telegraph line and a share in a canal. In 1894 his son George engaged J.Q. Ingham of Elmira, New York, to add a frame Queen Anne wing, whose tower and bay windows were designed to sit beside the older brick walls. The Welles family left the house in 1918, and it was later used as a warehouse for the Welles Mill Company. The nomination regards it as a rare survivor of early brick building in the area and as a record of the family's business activity. Its barns and farm buildings, including a ca. 1850 barn and a ca. 1870 barn, are also included.","period_of_significance":"1822-1918","architect_builder":"Ingham, J. Q. (architect for the 1894 addition); no architect is recorded for the 1822 brick section","architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Abandoned by the Welles family in 1918; used as a warehouse for the Welles Mill Company from 1945 to 1985; restored and used as a funeral home after 1985.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.194064-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/99000608.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000608/f6a16ae8f5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000608/f6a16ae8f5-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wells_House_Wyalusing_TWP_BradCo_PA_NRHP.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wells_House_Wyalusing_TWP_BradCo_PA_NRHP.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"03001156","name":"Welles, Ellen and Charles F., House (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/welles-ellen-and-charles-f-house-boundary-increase-03001156/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998816","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_and_Charles_F._Welles_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5365073"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bradford-county/welles-ellen-and-charles-f-house-99000608/"}