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Christian Schlegel Farm

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Built
  
1789, c. 1850, 1887

Area
  
55 ha

NRHP Reference #
  
92000938

Added to NRHP
  
29 July 1992

Christian Schlegel Farm httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Location
  
Fleetwood-Lyons Rd., Richmond Township, Pennsylvania

Architectural style
  
Other, Pennsylvania bank barn

MPS
  
Farms in Berks County MPS

Christian Schlegel Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It has 11 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 7 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object. They are a 1 1/2-story, stone farmhouse with a rear ell (1789, c. 1850); 1 1/2-story, stone summer kitchen (1789); 1 1/2-story, brick school house (c. 1870); frame Pennsylvania bank barn (1887); three wagon sheds; privy; tool shed; milk house; and smokehouse. The contributing structures are two chicken houses, two grape arbors, ground cellar, earthen dam, and small frame brooder house. The contributing site is the family cemetery and the contributing object is a granite marker commemorating the acquisition of the farm by Christian Schlegel on August 15, 1738. The farm remains in the Schlegel family.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

References

Christian Schlegel Farm Wikipedia