Matthew Hair Farm

Matthew Hair Farm
Location: Off PA 601, 1 mi. N of Boswell, Jenner Township, Pennsylvania
Area: 110 acres (45 ha)
Built: 1817, c. 1850, 1870
Architectural style: Georgian
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#: 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]

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