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Star Barn Complex
Star Barn Complex is located in Pennsylvania
Star Barn Complex
Star Barn Complex is located in the United States
Star Barn Complex
LocationNissley Dr. at PA 283, Lower Swatara Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°13′25″N 76°46′17″W / 40.22361°N 76.77139°W / 40.22361; -76.77139
Area3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built1872
ArchitectReichert, Daniel
Architectural styleGothic Revival
NRHP reference No.00000845[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 27, 2000

Star Barn Complex, also known as the John Motter Barn and Outbuildings and "Walnut Hill," is a historic farm outbuilding complex located at Lower Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It includes a large barn, pig barn (c. 1872), carriage house (c. 1872), chicken coop (c. 1872), grain silo, and milk house. The main barn, known as the Star Barn, was built in 1872, and is a five bay, Gothic Revival style frame building. It features an immense cupola atop a cross-gable roof.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1]

In April 2019, Pennlive.com published an article about the Star Barn's policy of banning gay weddings. Owner David Abel was quoted by Pennline.com as saying: "No persons will be discriminated against; however, we ask people to respect that we have core tenants in our faith and our beliefs and we cannot participate in any event that would be in contradiction to those core tenants - one of them being marriage, which has been biblically based for thousands of years as being between a man and a woman.”[3]

Move to Lancaster County

The Star Barn was dismantled beginning in October 2015 and then moved to a site in Lancaster County where it is being reassembled and preserved at the Ironestone Ranch in Elizabethtown.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ a b "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 Karen Arnold (March 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Star Barn Complex" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-12.
  3. ^ Dejesus, Ivey (2019-04-04). "Star Barn venue bars gay weddings over owner's religious beliefs". pennlive.com. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  4. ^ http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/10/star_barn_plans_on_track_for_m.html
  5. ^ "Volunteers close to finishing historic Star Barn". Penn Live. July 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2018.


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