Henry and Elizabeth Berkheimer Farm

Henry and Elizabeth Berkheimer Farm
Location 240 Bentz Mill Rd., Washington Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°02′26″N 77°00′50″W / 40.04056°N 77.01389°W / 40.04056; -77.01389Coordinates: 40°02′26″N 77°00′50″W / 40.04056°N 77.01389°W / 40.04056; -77.01389
Area 100 acres (40 ha)
Architectural style Other, Sweitzer barn
NRHP reference # 00001382[1]
Added to NRHP November 15, 2000

Henry and Elizabeth Berkheimer Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Washington Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It includes the farmhouse (1817), Sweitzer barn (1847), summer kitchen (c. 1840), and wagon shed (c. 1870). Also on the property are a woodshed, hog barn, poultry house, and seed house, all built about 1920; a metal windmill dated to 1909; and the site of an early 19th-century woolen mill and millrace. The farmhouse is a banked 2 1/2-story Pennsylvania German vernacular dwelling built of rough cut brownstone. It measures 48 feet wide by 23 feet deep.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[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 B. Raid (June 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Henry and Elizabeth Berkheimer Farm" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-12-18.


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