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S. R. Thompson House

historic house in Pennsylvania, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ7387276 ↗
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S. R. Thompson House is a historic home at New Wilmington, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1884, and is a three-story, Queen Anne style dwelling with a steep hipped roof and projecting gables. It has irregular massing, multiple porches, five types of wood siding, and stick style decoration. The house has been owned by Westminster College since 1945, and used for administrative offices and a women's residence.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

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“S. R. Thompson House” enters the record as historic house in Pennsylvania, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Thompson, House and historic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1884, 1945, 1985—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Thompson, House and historic.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7387276. Authority coordinates are 41.119, -80.334. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1884, 1945 and 1985.

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This entry incorporates text from “S. R. Thompson House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.