Josiah Frost House

Josiah Frost House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Southern side of U.S. Route 40, west of Searight's Corners, Menallen Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°57′18″N79°48′21″W / 39.95500°N 79.80583°W / 39.95500; -79.80583
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

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]

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

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Adam Baacke (May 1996). National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennsylvania MPS Frost, Josiah, House. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved December 20, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)
3. 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