Philip Friend House is a c. 1807 historic farm house in North Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania, US. The stone house is forty feet by thirty feet, two-story, five-bay, and gable-roofed. Contributing outbuildings include a barn, springhouse, wash house, and privy.
Stephenson–Campbell House, also known as the Stephenson–Campbell Property and the Stephenson Log House, is a historic site in Cecil, Pennsylvania containing four contributing buildings. Included are a 1778 log house, a 1929 Sears and Roebuck Company mail order bungalow style house, a 1929 spring house, and a 1928 garage. The log house is 16 feet by 34 feet, with several additions totaling about 1360 square feet. The log house is one of the few pre-1780 log houses still standing in Western Pennsylvania, and the only known example of a single story private home still extant in the area.
The Quakertown Passenger and Freight Station is a historic train station and freight depot located at Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The two buildings were designed by Wilson Bros. & Company in 1889 and built by Cramp and Co. for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad in 1902. The passenger station is constructed of dark Rockhill granite and Indiana limestone and is in a Late Victorian style. It is 1+1⁄2 stories tall and measures 25 feet wide by 97 feet 6 inches, long. It has a hipped roof with an eight-foot overhang. The freight station is a 1+1⁄2-story, rectangular stone block building measuring 128 by 30 feet. Also on the property is a large crane that was used for freight movement. The Quakertown station had passenger rail service along the Bethlehem Line to Bethlehem and Philadelphia until July 27, 1981, when SEPTA ended service on all its intercity diesel-powered lines. SEPTA still owns the line and leases it to the East Penn Railroad. Other towns, stations, and landmarks on the Bethlehem Line are Perkasie, Pennsylvania, Perkasie Tunnel, and Perkasie station.
River Bend Farm is a historic farm located in East Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania in a bend of the Schuylkill River near Pottstown. The farm house is a good example of early Chester County construction techniques, being built with stuccoed stone walls and pegged rafters. The farm was owned, but not lived in, by Michael Hillegas, the first Treasurer of the United States. It was also owned by members of the Joshua family political dynasty.
Benjamin B. Leas House, also known as Shirleysburg Female Seminary, Fort Shirley Site, and "The Rock," is a historic home located at Shirleysburg in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1850, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, rectangular red brick building, five-bays wide and measuring 41 feet by 32 feet. It has a rear kitchen / servant's quarters wing. The house is in the Greek Revival style. The house was built on the site of Fort Shirley, originally built in 1755. The house was used for a seminary from 1855 to 1866, as a rest-home for members of the German Baptist Church from 1885 to 1893, then housed the Shirleysburg Female Seminary until about 1903.
"Breezedale", also known as Sutton-Elkin House, is a historic home located on the campus of Indiana University of Pennsylvania at Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1865 and 1868, and has a 2+1⁄2-story, brick main building, 20 feet by 30 feet, in a Late Victorian-Italianate-style. Attached to the main section are a 12 feet by 18 feet wood addition, and two brick extensions. It features a classic portico and cupola. The building has been used as a dormitory and for classroom space, since being a part of the university after 1915. It is now home to Breezedale Alumni Center.
Henry and Elizabeth Berkheimer Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Washington Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It includes the farmhouse (1817), Sweitzer barn (1847), summer kitchen, and wagon shed. Also on the property are a woodshed, hog barn, poultry house, and seed house, all built about 1920; a metal windmill dated to 1909; and the site of an early 19th-century woolen mill and millrace. The farmhouse is a banked 2 1/2-story Pennsylvania German vernacular dwelling built of rough cut brownstone. It measures 48 feet wide by 23 feet deep.
Codorus Forge and Furnace Historic District, also known as Hellem (Hellam) Forge, is a historic iron forge and national historic district located at Hellam Township in York County, Pennsylvania. The district includes four contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure. The contributing buildings are the iron furnace, charcoal house, ruins of works' houses, ironmaster's house and furnace office, privy, forge (1800), and ruins of unknown structures. The furnace measures approximately 30 feet square at the base and 12 feet high. The ironmaster's house is a 2 1/2-story, stuccoed stone building, nine bays wide and one room deep. The Hellem (Hellam) Forge was first established in 1765.
McCalls Ferry Farm, also known as the Robert and Matthew McCall Farm, Atkins-Trout Farm, and Kilgore Farm, is a historic farm and national historic district located at Lower Chanceford Township in York County, Pennsylvania. The district includes six contributing buildings and two contributing sites. The buildings are the farmhouse, Sweitzer barn, frame corn barn, tobacco barn, milk house, and chicken house. The farmhouse is a banked Pennsylvania German vernacular dwelling built of stone and coated in stucco. It measures 40 feet wide and 30 feet deep, and has a slate covered gable roof. The sites are the stone foundation of a scale house and the ruins of a small dwelling.
Andrew Rabb House is a historic home located at German Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1773, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, 5-bay, stone dwelling in a vernacular Georgian style. It measures 44 feet by 24 feet. Andrew Rabb was a locally prominent and wealthy distiller who was significant in the Whiskey Rebellion in Fayette County.
Weber–Weaver Farm is a historic home and farm located at West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The property includes the Hans Weber House (1724), the Weber summer kitchen, the Weber barn, The John Weaver House and summer kitchen, the Weaver barn, the Weaver shed, and the Weaver garage (1930). The Hans Weber House is a stone dwelling modeled on the Hans Herr House in its Germanic style. It measure 36 feet by 34 feet, and was enlarged to a full two-stories and renovated between 1790 and 1810. The John Weaver House was built as a two-story, Georgian style dwelling, subsequently enlarged and modified during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Kirks Mills Historic District is a national historic district located at Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 12 contributing buildings in the village of Kirks Mills. They are Jacob Kirk's Mansion House, Brick Mill / Kirk's Mill, the brick miller's house, stone and log barn converted to a residence in 1975, Joseph Reynold's House (1825), Eastland Friend's Meeting and Tenant House, Ephriam B. Lynch House (1880s), Harry Reynolds House, Manuel Reynolds House, Eastland School House (1838), and Log House. The Jacob Kirk's Mansion House is a three-story, brick dwelling with a two-story ell. It features a full porch on the front and right sides. Kirk's Mill is a 2+1⁄2-story brick building with a slate gable roof. It was remodeled to a residence about 1940.
Hager Building is a historic commercial building located at Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by noted Lancaster architect C. Emlen Urban and built in 1910–1911. It is a five-story, three bay by five bay, steel frame structure clad in terra cotta in a French Renaissance Revival style. This section of the Hager Building measures 63 feet by 101 feet. The overall dimensions of the building are 240 feet, 6 inches, by 63 feet. This includes the central warehouse section, built between 1860 and 1890, and a brick northern extension built in 1923. The building once housed the Hager Brothers Department Store.
Troxell-Steckel House is a historic home located at Egypt, Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1756, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, fieldstone dwelling with a high-pitched gable roof in the Pennsylvania-German style. It measures 48 feet long and 35 feet wide. Also on the property is a contributing stone spring house and late-19th century barn. The house and property were given to the Lehigh County Historical Society in 1942, and is now open as a historic house museum.
Springfield Mill, also known as the Piper-Streeper Mill, is a historic gristmill located along the Wissahickon Creek in Erdenheim, Springfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It is a building on the Bloomfield Farm tract, now part of Morris Arboretum.
John Brown Farm, Tannery & Museum, 17620 John Brown Rd., Guys Mills, PA 16327, is a historic archaeological site located in Richmond Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. The tannery was built in 1825 by famed abolitionist John Brown (1800–1859), who lived on the site from 1825 to 1835. The tannery was about 0.25 miles (0.40 km) from the new Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal.
Log House, Hiester House, and Market Annex is a historic building located at Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The Log House was built about 1760, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, dwelling measuring 25 feet by 30 feet. The pine logs are chinked with cut stone and mortar, with notch and saddle corner construction. The John Hiester House was built about 1820, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, two-bay brick dwelling measuring 17 feet by 34 feet. It is located to the rear of the Log House and both were used for commercial activities in the 19th century. To the rear of the Hiester House is the West Reading Market Annex built in 1895. It is a brick market house measuring 165 feet long and 30 feet wide. The complex is the home of The Speckled Hen Cottage Pub and Alehouse.
Dolington Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Dolington, Upper Makefield Township and Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 64 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 4 contributing structures in the crossroads village of Dolington. The largely rural residential district includes representative buildings of the vernacular Federal and Gothic styles. The buildings were mostly built between 1800 and 1875. Notable buildings include the John L. Cox House, Joseph Moon House, Balderson House, John Harris House (1803), William Thornton House, John B. Alcutt House, Dolington Schoolhouse (1860),. The district also includes the ruins of the Canby / Davis Blacksmith Shop.
Chester Springs Historic District, also known as The Old Art School, Orphan's School, Yellow Springs Spa, and Good News Buildings, is a national historic district located in West Pikeland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 7 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure in the spa community of Chester Springs. The district includes the old hotel and inn, two large residences, a bath house at one end of the springs, and a studio. It also includes a wooden summer house that enclosed the iron springs. The property was the site of a hospital commissioned by the Continental Congress and built in 1777. The three-story, 106 feet by 36 feet wide building burned in 1902, was reconstructed, then burned again in the 1960s. The Yellow Springs resort operated in the early-mid 19th century and many of the buildings date from that period.
Merestone, also known as the John S. Reese, IV, House, is a historic estate located in New Garden Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and New Castle County, Delaware, spanning the border of the two states. The estate consists of the Merestone House, guest house / garage, milk house, and stone shed.
