Matthew Hair Farm

Matthew Hair Farm

Farmhouse in October 2014
Location Off PA 601, 1 mi. N of Boswell, Jenner Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°11′13″N 78°59′56″W / 40.18694°N 78.99889°W / 40.18694; -78.99889Coordinates: 40°11′13″N 78°59′56″W / 40.18694°N 78.99889°W / 40.18694; -78.99889
Area 110 acres (45 ha)
Built 1817, c. 1850, 1870
Architectural style Georgian
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]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "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.


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