The Henry and Elizabeth Berkheimer Farm is an historic home and farm complex which is located in Washington Township, York County, Pennsylvania.
Henry and Elizabeth Berkheimer Farm | |
Location | 240 Bentz Mill Rd., Washington Township, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 40°02′26″N 77°00′50″W / 40.04056°N 77.01389°W |
Area | 100 acres (40 ha) |
Architectural style | Sweitzer barn |
NRHP reference No. | 00001382[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 15, 2000 |
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1]
History and architectural features
editThis complex includes the farmhouse, which was built in 1817, the Sweitzer barn, which was erected in 1847, a summer kitchen, which was built circa 1840, and a wagon shed that was erected circa 1870. Also located on the property are a woodshed, hog barn, poultry house, and seed house, all of which were built sometime around 1920; a metal windmill which dates to 1909; and the site of an early 19th-century woolen mill and millrace.[2]
The farmhouse is a banked, two-and-one-half-story Pennsylvania German, vernacular dwelling built of rough cut brownstone. It measures forty-eight feet wide by twenty-three feet deep.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2011-12-20. Note: This includes B. Raid (June 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Henry and Elizabeth Berkheimer Farm" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-12-18.