{"nrhp_refnum":"99001498","name":"Longland","other_names":["Mead, Margaret, Farmstead"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2909 Holicong Rd. (Buckingham Township)","address_restricted":false,"city":"Holicong","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.34365681150004,"lon":-75.05675370987638,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-12-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Science","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Longland is a farmstead of about 15 acres near the village of Holicong in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, made up of a stone house with a kitchen wing, a woodshed/garage, a barn with an attached L, and a wagon house. The house was built in 1845 and the barn in 1844.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is nationally significant for its association with anthropologist Margaret Mead, who grew up there, and locally significant as an example of mid-nineteenth-century rural architecture showing Federal and Greek Revival influences. The house is described as an early example of the transition from Federal to Greek Revival vernacular design in rural Bucks County, and the barn as a representative mixed-type barn.","narrative":"Built in 1844 and 1845 on a hillside farm in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Longland consists of a rough-stuccoed stone house of two and three-quarter stories, a kitchen wing, a frame woodshed, a masonry barn, and a wagon house. The house, dated by a stone in its east gable, combines Federal proportions with early Greek Revival features, including a rectangular-transom entrance with sidelights and plastered quarter-round window jambs. Joseph and Harriet Fell built it, and the property was owned by the Mead family from 1912 until its sale in 1926. Anthropologist Margaret Mead spent most of her formative years there, and the nomination treats that association as the main reason for national significance. The house and barn are also cited as early, well-preserved examples of rural Bucks County architecture of their period.","period_of_significance":"1844-1926","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["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 17:11:37.915997-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/99001498.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001498/66cd93275f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001498/66cd93275f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LONGLAND.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</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:LONGLAND.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995880","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longland_(Holicong,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6674048"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/longland-99001498/"}