Horne Creek Farm is a historical farm near Pinnacle, Surry County, North Carolina. The farm is a North Carolina State Historic Site that belongs to the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, and it is operated to depict farm life in the northwest Piedmont area c. 1900. The historic site includes the late 19th century Hauser Farmhouse, which has been furnished to reflect the 1900-1910 era, along with other supporting structures. The farm raised animal breeds that were common in the early 20th century. The site also includes the Southern Heritage Apple Orchard, which preserves about 800 trees of about 400 heritage apple varieties. A visitor center includes exhibits, a gift shop and offices.
This is a list of properties on the National Register of Historic Places in northern New Castle County, Delaware.
The Robert Frost Farm, also known as the Homer Noble Farm, is a National Historic Landmark in Ripton, Vermont. It is a 150-acre (61 ha) farm property off Vermont Route 125 in the Green Mountains where American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963) lived and wrote in the summer and fall months from 1939 until his death in 1963. The property, historically called the Homer Noble Farm, includes a nineteenth-century farmhouse and a rustic wooden writing cabin. The property is now owned by Middlebury College. The grounds are open to the public during daylight hours.
The Kemp Place and Barn form a historic farmstead in Reading, Massachusetts. The main house is a 2+1⁄2-story Italianate wood-frame structure, with an L-shaped cross-gable footprint and clapboard siding. Its roofline is studded with paired brackets, its windows have "eared" or shouldered hoods, and there is a round-arch window in the front gable end. The porch wraps around the front to the side, supported by Gothic style pierced-panel posts. The square cupola has banks of three round-arch windows on each side. It is one of Reading's more elaborate Italianate houses, and is one of the few of the period whose cupola has survived.
Burns Family Farm is a historic farm and national historic district located at Bovina in Delaware County, New York. The district contains seven contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structures. It includes the Burns family farmhouse dating to 1833, 1+1⁄2-story frame stable, three-level dairy barn, a gable-roofed frame schoolhouse, and smaller outbuildings.
Bell Farmhouse is a historic home located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. The farmhouse was built about 1845 and is a two-story, gable-roofed brick building with an original two-story ell in the rear. It features a massive Doric columned wrap-around porch. Also on the property is a smokehouse, carriage house, and shed.
The Booth Farm is a historic farmhouse located in Bethel Township, Delaware County. The farmhouse was built in the Federal style in 1819 and a barn was also built about the same time. The roughly 77 acre farm was bought by Thomas Booth in the 1790s and has been used as a tenant farm throughout much of its history. He built the farmhouse for his son James who was born in 1790. Four following generations, all named Thomas Booth, have owned the farm into the 21st century.
The McCalls Ferry Farm, also known as the Robert and Matthew McCall Farm, Atkins-Trout Farm, and Kilgore Farm, is an historic, American farm and national historic district located in Lower Chanceford Township in York County, Pennsylvania.
The Marie Zimmermann Farm is an historic, American home that is located in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in Delaware Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania.
Robert Wilson House is a historic home located in East Fallowfield Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1823, and is a two-story, five-bay, stuccoed stone dwelling with a gable roof. The house has small wings on both sides. It features a formal entryway with pilasters and an elliptical fanlight. It is representative of a Federal style farmhouse.
Georgetown Coal Gasification Plant, also known as the Georgetown Service and Gas Company, is a historic coal gasification plant located at Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in the late-19th century, and is a rectangular one-story, three bay by three bay brick structure measuring 40 feet by 25 feet. It has a gable roof with a smaller gable roofed ventilator. Also on the property is a small brick gable roofed brick building measuring 8 feet by 10 feet; a small, square concrete building; a large, cylindrical "surge tank;" 500-gallon bottled-gas tank; and a covered pit for impurities. The complex was privately owned and developed starting in the 1880s to provide metered gas for domestic lighting, town street lights, municipal and domestic uses. The coal gasification process was discontinued in the 1940s.
West Potato House was a historic potato house located near Delmar, Sussex County, Delaware. It was one of the last surviving examples of its building type. It was built about 1925, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, gable fronted, balloon frame structure on a concrete block foundation. The house had a cellar. It measured 37 feet, 6 inches, by 13 feet, 9 inches. It retained a number of important elements characteristic of potato house including: tall, narrow proportions, minimal fenestration, ventilation features, and tightly fitting door hatches.
Isaac Harmon Farmhouse is a historic farmhouse located near Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built about 1845, and is a two-story, four-bay, single pile, wood frame dwelling clad in clapboard. It has a gable roof pierced by interior end brick chimneys. It was one of the first properties in the Indian River community to be owned by an Indian family. Isaac Harmon was one of the leaders in the Nanticoke separatist movement of the 1880s.
Ames Hitchens Chicken Farm was a historic home and farm located near Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. It included a two-story, wood frame, gable front dwelling and two long, one-story, flatroofed buildings, used as chicken houses. It was the last of these structures still standing within the Indian River Nanticoke community.
Warren T. Wright Farmhouse Site is a historic archaeological site located near Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. It once included a farmhouse similar to the nearby Robert Davis Farmhouse, but this was destroyed by a fire in the 1970s. The remains are partially visible. Warren Wright was a leader in the nativist movement during the period of the Indian River Nanticoke community.
Dodd Homestead was a historic home and farmstead located near Rehoboth Beach, Sussex County, Delaware. It was a modified "L"-shaped, wood frame dwelling, the earliest portion of which dated to about 1830. The main house was a long, rectangular, two-story, single-pile structure in a vernacular Federal / Greek Revival style. It had a wing, that was originally one-story. but later raised to a full two-stories, probably in the mid-19th century. There was also a two-story rear wing. The house was sheathed in hand-hewn cypress shingles and had stuccoed brick interior end chimneys. Contributing 19th century outbuildings included a low brick ash shed, milk house, wood shed, storage shed, a small shed-roofed poultry house, stable, barn, a large gable-roofed dairy barn, corn crib, and carriage house.
Lawrence was a historic home located near Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built about 1840, as a three-story, three-bay, frame structure with a gable roof. It has a rear service wing. It featured a front portico supported by four square columns. Original details, including hardware, flooring, trim, and landscaping, survived throughout the house and grounds.
Edward R. Wilson House, also known as the W. H. Schultz House, is a historic home located at Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1860, and is a three-story, gable-roofed frame dwelling with a porch running across its facade, north endwall, and rear elevation. It has a two-story brick wing built about 1900, and a later frame wing extending from the rear of the brick addition. It is in the Greek Revival / Italianate style. Since 1907, the house is part of the University of Delaware Farm, an agricultural experiment station managed by its College of Agriculture. The house was used as a dormitory during the 1980s and has since been repurposed to serve as offices for the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Delaware.
Old Ford Dairy is a historic home located near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1850, and was a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay by two-bay frame, double cross-gable, vernacular Victorian farmhouse. It had a rear wing, three-bay front porch, and two brick gable end chimneys. Also on the property were a drive through, 2+1⁄2-story granary, a rectangular grain storage bin, and a three-story gambrel-roofed dairy barn.
Zachariah Ferris House is a historic home located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built between 1718 and 1749, and was an example of an early farmhouse continually occupied by professional and working families. It is a two-story, brick dwelling measuring 29 feet wide and 18 feet deep with a gable roof. It features a panel of brickwork between the two windows of the second floor, where two rows of numerals and letters are built in with dark glazed headers. The house was owned by Congressman Louis McLane and U.S. Senator Outerbridge Horsey.
