Overbrook Farms is a neighborhood on the western edge of the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is roughly bounded by City Avenue, 58th Street, Woodbine Avenue, and 66th Street at Morris Park. The neighborhood is bisected by Lancaster Avenue and the original Pennsylvania Railroad "main line". Today the rail line is used by both Amtrak passenger service and SEPTA's commuter Paoli/Thorndale Line.
Hopewell is a set of historic homes and farm complexes located at Union Bridge, Carroll County, Maryland, United States. It consists of four related groupings of 19th century farm buildings. The Hopewell complex consists of two historic farms: Hopewell and the smaller F.R. Shriner Farm.
Meadow Brook Farm, also known as the John Roop Farm or Samuel Roop Farm, is a historic home and farm complex located at Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland. The complex consists of the Victorian farmhouse and several period outbuildings including an 1809 two-story brick washhouse, brick smokehouse, brick privy, and brick tenant house. The house is a two-story brick structure that was built in the Pennsylvania German style about 1805. It has the typical gable roof, symmetrical façade, and "L"-shaped plan In 1868, the exterior and interior were remodeled to contemporary rural Victorian standards. The house was built during a period of significant immigration of Pennsylvania Germans into Maryland.
Robert Parkinson Farm is a historic property in Morris Township, Pennsylvania. The contributing buildings are the c. 1830 house, c. 1830 banked barn, c. 1870 sheep barn, c. 1880 hay shed, c. 1880 spring house, and a c. 1920 privy. The house is a five-bay center passage farmhouse with an attached rear kitchen in a T-shaped floor plan. The Parkinson Farm is an example of an early 19th-century sheep farm, and it continued to operate as such until about 1960.
Bucher Ayres Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Ferguson Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. The complex consists of the main house, a carriage shed / ice house, a smoke house, and an outhouse. The main house was built in 1858, and is in three sections. The main block is two stories and five bays wide in a traditional Georgian style. It features a three bay, Greek Revival style portico with a hipped roof.
High Hill Farm, also known as Connemara Farm, is a historic farm complex located at Concordville, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The complex includes the great double barn and farmhouse, both dated principally to the early 20th century; a carriage house and stable, dated to the 1880s; a creamery, and various sheds. The great double barn is a "T"-shaped, bank barn wood building. It features a pair of great sliding doors on the uphill side. The farmhouse is a 2 1/2-story, modified center hall Georgian style house. It features a broad shed roof dormer.
Collen Brook Farm, also known as Collenbrook, is a historic home and associated buildings located at Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The complex includes three contributing buildings: a farmhouse, a granite spring house, and stone and frame carriage house. The house is a 2 1⁄2-story, vernacular stone residence with a Georgian plan and consisting of three sections. The oldest section was built around 1700, with additions made in 1774, and 1794. It was the home of noted educator and political leader George Smith (1804–1882).
Millmont Farm is a historic home and farm complex at Montgomery Township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The property includes the main house, a double log house, a stone and frame secondary dwelling, a large frame bank barn, and the site of a grist mill. The main house was built between 1798 and 1821, and is a 2-story, five bay stone dwelling with a 1 1/2-story rear wing. It has a vernacular Georgian plan. The property was owned by James Ramsey, whose granddaughters were the sisters Jane Irwin Harrison (1804–1846), daughter-in-law of and White House hostess for U.S. President William Henry Harrison, and Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin Harrison (1810–1850), mother of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison.
John Turn Farm is a historic farm complex located in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area at Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, USA. The complex includes the lime kiln, smoke house and weave house. The property also includes the site of the demolished main farmhouse, a smaller house, a barn and garage.
Lenhart Farm is a historic house and farm complex located in Lenhartsville, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The house was built by about 1830, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, brownstone dwelling in the Georgian style. Also on the property are a stone and frame bank barn (1841), springhouse, carriage house, and a number of farm-related outbuildings.
Knorr–Bare Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It has 13 contributing buildings and 8 contributing structures. They include a 2 1/2-story, four bay, brick farmhouse (1906); frame Pennsylvania bank barn (1896); and 1 1/2-story stone cabin. The remaining buildings were mostly built between about 1896 and 1940, with two tenant houses dated to the late-18th century and mid-19th century. Other buildings include a milk house, smoke house / bake house, privy, four wagon sheds, and a hay barn. The contributing structures include a lime kiln, silo, and a variety of animal shelters.
Stupp–Oxenrider Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in North Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It has nine contributing buildings, one contributing site, and four contributing structures. They include a 2 1/2-story, log Swiss bank house ; 2-story, log, tenant / grandfather's house ; and frame Pennsylvania bank barn. The remaining buildings include a stone summer kitchen / butcher house, smokehouse, blacksmith's shop, wagon shed, milk house, and privy. The contributing structures are a chicken house, brooder house, pole shed, and roofed spring. The contributing site is a limestone quarry.
Jacob Leiby Farm is a historic farm complex, Pennsylvania Bluestone quarry, and national historic district located in Perry Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It has six contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and three contributing structures. All of the buildings are constructed of Pennsylvania Bluestone. They include a 2 1/2-story, five-bay by two-bay, vernacular Federal-style farmhouse (1829); 1 1/2-story, tenant house/blacksmith shop; Pennsylvania bank barn; wagon shed; cider house; and quarry house. The contributing structures are a bake oven, ground cellar, and large stone and earthen dam on Maiden Creek. The contributing sites are the Pennsylvania Bluestone quarry and cemetery. The quarry ceased operation in 1884, with the death of Jacob Leiby.
Joel Dreibelbis Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It has 13 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures. They include a 2 1/2-story, brick vernacular Federal-style farmhouse (1868); 1 1/2-story, summer kitchen ; 1 1/2-story, stone and frame combination smokehouse / wash house / storage cellar (1882); stone ice house ; frame Pennsylvania bank barn on a stone foundation (1908); wagon shed / corn crib; and farm related outbuildings. The property also includes an abandoned limestone quarry and abandoned railroad bed and bridge.
Isaiah Paxson Farm, also known as Burgess Lea, is a historic farm complex located in Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The complex consists of a house, double barn, carriage house, springhouse, shed, smoke house, and small barnyard building. All of the buildings are constructed of stone. The house was built in 1785, and has a 2 1⁄2-story, three-bay, gable-roofed main section with a 2 1⁄2-story kitchen section and one-story shed addition. It is in the Georgian style.
Fretz Farm was a historic house and farm complex located in Doylestown Township Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It had five contributing buildings and one contributing structure. They were the farmhouse, barn, carriage house, small barn / corn crib, old barn, gazebo, and pump house. The buildings were in the Italianate style.
John Williams Farm, also known as the Davis B. Williams Farm and Stinson Markley Residence, is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It includes five contributing buildings and one contributing site. They are the farmhouse, bank barn (1834), garden and springhouse, and wagon house, and the remains of the "necessary" and animal pen.
John Bell Farm is a historic home and farm complex located in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was originally built in the 1840s and extensively remodeled in 1889 in the Queen Anne style. The original house consists of the two-story, five bay, stone central block with two-story service wing. When remodeled, the roof received a cross-gable and dormer windows. Also added was the two-story library wing, kitchen extension, and two-sided porch. Also on the property are a contributing spring house, tenant house, corn crib, and barn.
Hopewell Farm, also known as Lower Farm and Hopedell Farm, is a historic home and farm located in Valley Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The farm has six contributing buildings, one contributing site, and six contributing structures. They are a 2 1/2-story stone and frame farmhouse, tenant house (1940), stone and frame Pennsylvania bank barn and silo complex, chicken coop (1940), corn crib, two garages, milk / spring house, spring house, stone arch bridge, two privies, and the remains of a lime kiln.
