Joseph Funk House

Joseph Funk House
Southwestern angle
Location Singers Glen Road in Singers Glen, Virginia
Coordinates 38°33′3″N 78°55′4″W / 38.55083°N 78.91778°W / 38.55083; -78.91778Coordinates: 38°33′3″N 78°55′4″W / 38.55083°N 78.91778°W / 38.55083; -78.91778
Area Less than 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built c. 1810 (1810)
NRHP reference # 75002036[1]
VLR # 0082-0069
Significant dates
Added to NRHP February 24, 1975
Designated VLR November 19, 1975[2]

Joseph Funk House is a historic home located at Singers Glen, Rockingham County, Virginia. It was built about 1810, and is a 1 1/2-story, log dwelling with a gable roof and an undercut front gallery. The house is sheathed with weatherboarding. Its builder Joseph Funk (1777-1862), was a leader in the Mennonite faith and an influential musical theorist who was the grandson of a German Palatine settler of Bernese Swiss descent. The second-floor room where the printing press, formerly located in a separate building, was placed was originally a loom room. It was converted to a school room in 1837. The building served as Funk's publishing house from 1847 until 1878.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Martha B. Caldwell and Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (August 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Joseph Funk House" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
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