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Henry and Elizabeth Berkheimer Farm

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Architectural style
  
Other, Sweitzer barn

Area
  
40 ha

NRHP Reference #
  
00001382

Added to NRHP
  
15 November 2000

Henry and Elizabeth Berkheimer Farm httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Location
  
240 Bentz Mill Rd., Washington Township, Pennsylvania

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.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

References

Henry and Elizabeth Berkheimer Farm Wikipedia