Josiah Frost House
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| Location | Southern side of U.S. Route 40, west of Searight's Corners, Menallen Township, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 39°57′18″N 79°48′21″W / 39.95500°N 79.80583°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Architectural style | Federal |
| MPS | National Road in Pennsylvania MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 96001209[1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 24, 1996 |
The Josiah Frost House is an historic American home that is located in Menallen Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1]
History and architectural features
[edit]Built roughly between 1816 and 1819, this historic structure is a two-story, rectangular, sandstone dwelling that measures forty-eight feet by twenty-four feet. It was designed in a vernacular, Federal style, and was built as part of the Searight Tavern complex at Searight's Corners, an important stop for nineteenth-century travelers on the National Road.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1]
The house pictured opposite the site of the demolished Frost house, also known as the Searight House. The Frost house was on the north side of Route 40.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2012-01-25. Note: This includes Adam Baacke (May 1996). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Josiah Frost House" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-23.
- ^ Thomas B. Searights, The Old Pike, Uniontown, 1894 page 244, 247. Joseph E. Morse & R. Duff Green (ed.), Thomas B. Searight's The Old Pike: An Illustrated Narrative of the National Road, Orange Virginia, Green Tree Press, 1971, pages 54 & 56
