Josiah Frost House Explained

Josiah Frost House
Location:	Southern side of U.S. Route 40, west of Searight's Corners, Menallen Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:	39.955°N -79.8058°W
Architecture:	Federal
Added:	October 24, 1996
Area:	less than one acre
Refnum:	96001209

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.

History and architectural features

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.^[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

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.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania. CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Searchable database. 2012-01-25. 2007-07-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20070721014609/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp. dead. Note: This includes Web site: [{{NRHP-PA|H096952_01H.pdf}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Josiah Frost House]. 2012-01-23. Adam Baacke. PDF. May 1996.
2. 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