Matthew Hair Farm

Matthew Hair Farm
Farmhouse in October 2014
Matthew Hair Farm is located in Pennsylvania
Matthew Hair Farm
Matthew Hair Farm is located in the United States
Matthew Hair Farm
LocationOff PA 601, 1 mi. N of Boswell, Jenner Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°11′13″N 78°59′56″W / 40.18694°N 78.99889°W / 40.18694; -78.99889
Area110 acres (45 ha)
Built1817, c. 1850, 1870
Architectural styleGeorgian
NRHP reference No.96001207[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 24, 1996

The Matthew Hair Farm, also known as the Calvin Shaulis Farm and Fruit Crest, is an historic, American farm and national historic district located in Jenner Township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1]

History and architectural features

This district includes three contributing buildings and three contributing structures. The buildings are a Georgian-inspired, vernacular, brick house (1817), a 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 twentieth-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. ^ a b c "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 Clinton E. Piper (May 1996). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Matthew Hair Farm" (PDF). Retrieved December 8, 2011.