Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker was the 23rd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1907. He also served Pennsylvania as a judge and wrote on aspects of Pennsylvania history.
Townsend House, also known as Lundale Farm, is a historic home located near Pughtown in South Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in three phases. The oldest section dates to 1796, with additions made in the early 19th century, and in 1950. The main house was built in the first two phases and is a 2 1⁄2-story, five-bay, random fieldstone structure coated in stucco. It has a gable roof and a brick chimney at the west gable end. The 1950 addition is a 2 1⁄2-story structure attached at the east end. Also on the property is a stone springhouse dated to the early 18th century.
White Horse Farm, also known as the Elijah F. Pennypacker House, is a historic home and farm located in Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The original section was built around 1770. In the 19th century, it was the home of abolitionist Elijah F. Pennypacker and served as a station on the Underground Railroad. The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
Hugh D. and Martha South Seeds Farm, also known as Eden Hill Farm, is a historic home and farm located at Spruce Creek Township in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. The property includes a vernacular stone farmhouse dated to about 1830; a Pennsylvania bank barn dated to about 1880; and the surrounding landscape elements including farm lanes, fence rows, and field patterns. The farmhouse is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, banked limestone dwelling with a full Georgian plan.
Church Hill Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Peters Township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The house is a three-part, two-story stone-and-frame dwelling. It has 2 three-bay stone sections dated to the 1820s or 1830s, with a two-story, frame addition dated between 1840 and 1900. Also on the property are a contributing barn, out kitchen, corn crib, and wagon shed.
McCoy–Shoemaker Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Peters Township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The property includes a main house dated to the 1820s or 1830s, a 1 1/2-story stone spring house and dwelling built about 1800 with frame addition, large stone end bank barn, frame wash house, stone smokehouse, and brick privy. The main house is a two-story, five bay, "L"-shaped brick building on a fieldstone foundation. The stone spring house may have also been used as a distillery.
The Swatara Furnace is a historic iron furnace and 200-acre national historic district located along Mill Creek, a tributary of the Swatara Creek in Pine Grove Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
Byerly House, also known as the Best House, is a historic home located in Upper Burrell Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The main section was built in 1842, with a rear ell dated to the 1830s. The main section is a two-story, brick dwelling, five bays wide and on a stone foundation. It has a gable roof and three chimneys. It has a one-story, rear ell consisting of two rooms. It is a vernacular dwelling with Post Colonial and Greek Revival design elements.
Samuel W. Pennypacker School is a historic elementary school located in the West Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia.
Rhoads-Lorah House and Barn, also known as "Five Springs Farm," is a historic home and barn located in Amity Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1830, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, limestone dwelling in the Georgian style. It measures 42 feet by 20 feet. It is attached to an earlier two-story, 17 feet by 17 feet, stone dwelling, making a "T"-shape. The stone barn was also built about 1830, and measures 66 feet by 41 feet. Also on the property are a contributing springhouse, drive-through corn crib, and machinery shed.
Lewis Summers Farm, also known as the Whitacre Farm, is a historic home and farm located at Ottsville, Tinicum Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The farmhouse was built about 1830, and is a vernacular German Colonial stone dwelling. A stone addition was built in 1866. The main section is 2 1/2-stories, four bays wide, and measures 32 feet by 28 feet. The front facade features a hipped roof portico. Also on the property are a variety of contributing farm-related outbuildings and structures.
Isaiah Warner Farmstead is a historic home and farm located in Wrightstown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The original section of the house was built in 1793, with additions dated to about 1830 and 1935. It is a 2 1/2-story, stone farmhouse with a slate covered gable roof constructed in three sections. It measures 64 feet long and approximately 20 feet deep and is in the Federal style. Also on the property are two two-story, 19th century frame barns; and a shed, corn crib, and chicken house dated to the early 20th century.
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.
Maj. Gen. Lord Stirling Quarters, also known as Homestead Farm (1880) and Echo Valley Farms (1926-1973), is a historic home located in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The house was built in three sections, with the oldest dated to about 1738. The center structure is dated to 1769, and the kitchen added between 1791 and 1835. It is a stuccoed stone dwelling with a medium gable roof. The center section is three bays wide. It was renovated in 1926. During the American Revolution the house served as headquarters for Major General William Alexander, Lord Stirling in late-1777 and early-1778, during the encampment at Valley Forge.
Lafayette's Quarters, also known as the Brookside Inn, is a historic home located on Wilson Road south-southeast of the intersection of Yellow Springs Road and Wilson Road in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. This house is not opened to the public. The house was built in three sections, with the oldest dated to 1763. The center structure is dated to about 1837–1839, and the western section was added between 1882 and 1900. The oldest section is a 2 1/2-story, two bay by three bay, stuccoed stone structure with a gambrel roof. The center section is of stuccoed stone, three bays long and two bays wide. The western section is a frame structure. It was renovated in 1948. During the American Revolution the house served as headquarters for Major General Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette in late-1777 and early-1778, during the encampment at Valley Forge.
Federal Barn, also known as the barn at Cressbrook Farm, is a historic barn located in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The barn was built in two sections; the older dated to 1792 and the second section to about 1840. It is a two-story., six bay, Pennsylvania bank barn. It is of fieldstone and frame construction and has a gable roof. The barn is located about 150 feet from Cressbrook Farm house.
Benjamin Pennypacker House is a historic home located in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in the 1840s and succinctly packed with copper pennies adding up to thousands of dollars, and is a 2 1⁄2-story, stuccoed stone dwelling with a gable roof in the rural Federal style. It features a one-story, three-sided porch. Also on the property is a contributing corn crib and site of a spring house. The property was acquired by the Church Farm School about 1918, and served as the residence for the farm manager.
Hibernia House is a historic home located in Hibernia County Park, near Wagontown, West Caln Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in four phases between the late 18th and early 20th century. The original house was owned by Isaac Van Leer and his well known historical Van Leer family. The original section was a two-story, stone dwelling measuring 18 feet by 24 feet. In 1798, a 1 1⁄2-story, stone kitchen addition was built. In 1821, the mansion house was built making the older sections the west wing. The mansion house is a 2 1⁄2-story, four-bay, stone structure measuring 45 feet by 43 feet. The house was modified between 1895 and 1910 to add a 33 foot wide pedimented pavilion, ballroom addition, and addition to the west wing.
Indian Deep Farm is a historic home and farm located in Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The house consists of a two-story, five bay, brick main block dated to the 1830s, with a two-story, two bay, stone core section. Both the main block and core have gable roofs. Also on the property is a stone and frame bank barn, shop, slaughterhouse, and 1 1/2-story frame tenant house built over a spring. The property also includes a stone walled stockyard.
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.
