Greensboro is a borough in Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 267 at the 2020 census, up from 260 at the 2010 census.
Monongahela Township is a township in Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,489 at the 2020 census, down from 1,572 at the 2010 census.
The James Parreco House is a historic home located at Greensboro in Greene County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1910, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, two bay sandstone dwelling, with Prairie Style design elements. It has a hipped roof with wide waves and a one-story front porch with massive brick supports.
The Stiegel-Coleman House, also known as Elizabeth Furnace, is a historic mansion house at 2121 Furnace Hills Pike, just north of Brickerville, Pennsylvania. Built in 1757 and substantially enlarged in 1780, it was the home of two of colonial Pennsylvania's early iron and glass makers, William Stiegel and Robert Coleman. The furnace they operated, whose archaeological remains were rediscovered in 2004, was one of the most successful in the Thirteen Colonies, and provided war materials for Continental Army. Their house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966. It has remained in the hands of Coleman descendants, mostly as a private residence.
The Amelung House and Glassworks is a historic home located at Urbana, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story, late-Georgian brick home on a stone foundation built about 1785. The property once had the New Bremen glassworks built by Johann Friedrich Amelung after he came to Maryland in 1784; no above-ground remains of the factory remain. Fine examples of New Bremen glass work may be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York; and Winterthur Museum in Winterthur, Delaware.
The Samuel H. and Isabel Smith Elkins House is a historic home in Columbia, Missouri. The home is located just north of Downtown Columbia, Missouri on 9th street and today contains an artisan glassworks. The large two-story brick residence was built about 1882 in the Italianate style.
The Albany Glassworks Site is an archeological site in Guilderland, Albany County, New York. Approximately 2 acres (0.81 ha) in size, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The Harlan Log House, also known as "The Log House," was built about 1715 by Joshua Harlan, is a well-preserved example of an English-style log cabin near Kennett Square, in Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is about a half mile west of the hamlet of Fairville. Joshua Harlan was the son of George Harlan, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1687. Joshua was born in 1696 and was the cousin of the George Harlan, who built the Harlan House, about 12 miles north about 1724. Both houses are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Thomas Munce House is a historic house in South Strabane Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. The earliest section was built in c. 1794 with additions in c. 1810 and 1835. The house is 2+1⁄2-story, stone, vernacular, Georgian-influenced with a gabled roof and a façade with five openings. The house is representative of the more substantial second-generation houses built to replace earlier log houses in Washington County.
Dusmal House is a historic building in Gastonville, Pennsylvania. It is a three-bay, 2+1⁄2-story house built in 1839. A one-story addition was added later in the nineteenth century. The historic significance of the house is as an example of the Post Colonial style of architecture found in Western Pennsylvania. Vernacular builders mixed elements of Georgian, Roman Classical, Adamesque, and European Renaissance styles as they saw fit, differing from traditions in other parts of the country.
The Coventry Glass Factory Historic District is a 32-acre (13 ha) historic district in Coventry, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The listing encompasses ten historically significant houses, clustered near the site of the former Coventry Glass Factory, in a linear district along what was the Boston Turnpike, now U.S. Route 44. The Skungamaug River is a creek cutting through the district. The glassworks operated here between 1813 and about 1845, and most of these houses date to that time, exhibiting largely vernacular Federal and Greek Revival styles. The most sophisticated and best-preserved house is that of Nathaniel Root, at 1044 Boston Turnpike. The ground in the area of the glassworks is littered with melted glass fragments and burnt brick fragments.
Christian Oyer Jr. House, also known as Harmon House, is a historic home located at Barree Township in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1830, and is a two-story, five bay, rectangular Federal style stone dwelling. It measures 32 feet by 42 feet.
Peters-Graham House is a historic home located at Greensboro in Greene County, Pennsylvania. The first section was built about 1859, and is a one-story, single pen log dwelling, measuring 15 feet by 13 feet. Attached to it is an 18 feet by 13 feet timber-frame addition built in the mid- to late-19th century. The two sections are covered by a shallow pitched roof. A shed roofed kitchen was added in the mid-20th century. It was built by Robert Peters, an African American and freed slave who worked in the local potteries.
The Glassworks-Gabler House, also known as Building 302A, is an historic home which is located in Monongahela Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania.
Reppert-Gabler House, also known as Building 314A, is a historic home located at Monongahela Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania. The original section was built about 1810, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, four bay, brick dwelling in a vernacular Federal-style. An addition was built about 1880, and has Italianate-style details. The house is associated with the New Geneva Glassworks.
The New England Glassworks was a short-lived glass-making factory located in Temple, New Hampshire in the 1780s, and one of the first glassworks in the United States. Founded in 1780 by Robert Hewes, a Boston-based businessman, the glassworks employed Hessian deserters from the British forces of the American Revolutionary War. The glassworks was established in 1780 and failed due to a lack of financing in 1783. Its abandoned site was excavated in the 1970s, and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Lacawac is a historic estate located in Paupack Township and Salem Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1903, as a summer estate of Congressman William Connell (1827-1909). Six of the eight buildings remain. They are the main house, barn, spring house, pump house, Coachman's Cabin, and ice house. The buildings are in an Adirondack Great Camp style. The main house is a 2+1⁄2-story frame dwelling with a cross gable roof. It features two-story porches and the interior is paneled in southern yellow pine.
Squire Cheyney Farm is a historic farm and national historic district located in Thornbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses two contributing buildings, three contributing sites, one contributing structure, and contributing object. They are the farmhouse, barn, ruins of a granary, remains of an ice house, a spring house (1799), stone retaining wall, and family cemetery. The house was built in four periods, with the oldest dated to about 1797. The oldest section is a 2 1/s-story, three bay, stuccoed stone structure with a gable roof. The additions were built about 1815, about 1830, and about 1850, making it a seven-bay-wide dwelling. It is "L"-shaped and has a slate gable roof. During the American Revolution, Thomas "Squire" Cheyney [II] informed General George Washington during the Battle of Brandywine that the British were flanking him to the north. He was later appointed to the Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention to ratify the United States Constitution. The site is now a township park known as Squire Cheyney Farm Park.
Wee Grimmet is a historic home located in Whitford, West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The original section was built about 1820, and expanded about 1929 by architect John Gilbert McIlvaine, a partner of Wilson Eyre, and expanded again in late 1953. It currently has common areas plus four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and five fireplaces. It is located on the Martha and Maurice Ostheimer Estate, along with the larger estate home known as "Grimmet." Wee Grimmet consists of a two-story, stuccoed stone core section with a gable roof. The addition contains a family room, a master bedroom, and two bathrooms. The original house was built as a dwelling for tenant workers in the limestone quarry, salt mine, and kiln nearby.
Jacob Zook House, also known as the Rodney House and Store, is a historic home located on the East Lincoln Highway in Exton, West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
