Grand View Dairy Farm

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Grand View Dairy Farm
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The farmhouse in September 2013
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LocationPreston Road south of Wernersville, South Heidelberg Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°18′42.2″N76°04′56″W / 40.311722°N 76.08222°W / 40.311722; -76.08222
Area100 acres (40 ha)
Built1790
MPS Farms in Berks County MPS
NRHP reference No. 92000933 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 29, 1992

The Grand View Dairy Farm is an historic farm complex and national historic district, which is located in South Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]

History and architectural features

The Grand View Dairy Farm has eight contributing buildings and four contributing structures: a two-and-one-half-story, log farmhouse that was built on a stone foundation circa 1790, a frame farmhouse that was erected on a stone foundation circa 1890, a frame summer kitchen that was built sometime around 1890, a smokehouse, a butcher shop, a stone dairy barn that was built in 1849, a frame dairy barn that was built in 1901, a bull barn that was erected sometime around 1910, and two frame sheds.

The contributing structures are two frame corn cribs, a ground cellar and a frame pig pen, which were built sometime around 1901. [2]

This farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on July 21, 2007. Retrieved September 16, 2012.Note: This includes Phoebe Hopkins (June 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Grand View Dairy Farm" (PDF). Retrieved August 22, 2012.
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