Matthew Hair Farm
Appearance
Matthew Hair Farm | |
![]() Farmhouse in October 2014 | |
Location | Off PA 601, 1 mi. N of Boswell, Jenner Township, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 40°11′13″N 78°59′56″W / 40.18694°N 78.99889°W |
Area | 110 acres (45 ha) |
Built | 1817, c. 1850, 1870 |
Architectural style | Georgian |
NRHP reference No. | 96001207[1] |
Added to NRHP | October 24, 1996 |
Matthew Hair Farm, also known as the Calvin Shaulis Farm and Fruit Crest, is a historic farm and national historic district located at Jenner Township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The district includes three contributing buildings and three contributing structures. The buildings are a Georgian-inspired vernacular brick house (1817), Germanic-influenced bank barn (c. 1870), and a kitchen / spring house (c. 1850). The house is a 2 1/2-story, double pile, modified central passage dwelling with a gable roof. It features a shed roof front porch. The structures are a 20th-century man-made pond, a cistern, and a windmill to pump water to the cistern.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Clinton E. Piper (May 1996). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Matthew Hair Farm" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-12-08.
Categories:
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Georgian architecture in Pennsylvania
- Houses completed in 1817
- Houses in Somerset County, Pennsylvania
- National Register of Historic Places in Somerset County, Pennsylvania
- Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- 1817 establishments in Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Registered Historic Place stubs