Rhoads Homestead

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Rhoads Homestead
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Rhoads Homestead Farmhouse. November 2012.
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Location102-106 W. Bridge St., New Hope, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°21′57.4″N74°57′23.1″W / 40.365944°N 74.956417°W / 40.365944; -74.956417
Area60.1 acres (24.3 ha)
Built1734, 1760, 1776, 1858
MPS New Hope MRA
NRHP reference No. 85003655 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 8, 1996

The Rhoads Homestead is an historic, American homestead that is located in New Hope, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]

History and architectural features

The farmhouse consists of two sections; the oldest was built circa 1734. The first section is a 2+12-story, fieldstone structure with an attached, one-story, sloped-roof, fieldstone addition. A second house dates to 1760 and is a 2+12-story, fieldstone dwelling that was remodeled during the nineteenth century in the Victorian style. It has a two-story, stone addition and a one-story board-and-batten addition.

Associated with this house are stone spring houses, board-and-batten woodsheds, a clapboard pump shelter, and the ruins of a small bank barn. The third house was built in 1858 and is a small 2+12-story, board-and-batten dwelling that was built to house servants.

This homestead was the site of General William Alexander's three week bivouac prior to the Battle of Trenton from December 8 through December 25, 1776. [2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [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" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System.Note: This includes Ann Niessen (October 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Rhoads Homestead" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-10-01.