Peters-Graham House | |
![]() From Second Street, June 2014. | |
Location | Jct. of Walnut and Second Sts., Greensboro, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 39°47′34″N79°54′47″W / 39.79278°N 79.91306°W Coordinates: 39°47′34″N79°54′47″W / 39.79278°N 79.91306°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | c. 1859 |
MPS | Greensboro--New Geneva MPS |
NRHP reference No. | 95000116 [1] |
Added to NRHP | March 9, 1995 |
The Peters-Graham House is an historic, American home that is located in Greensboro in Greene County, Pennsylvania.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. [1]
The first section of this historic structure was built circa 1859, and is a one-story, single-pen, log dwelling that measures fifteen feet by thirteen feet. Attached to the house is an eighteen-foot by thirteen-foot timber-frame addition that was built in the mid- to late-nineteenth century. The two sections are covered by a shallow pitched roof. A shed roofed kitchen was added in the mid-twentieth century. It was built by Robert Peters, an African American and a formerly enslaved man who worked in the local potteries. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. [1]
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