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John Burroughs Homestead

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NRHP Reference #
  
84003163

Added to NRHP
  
5 March 1984

Area
  
4 ha

John Burroughs Homestead

Location
  
Wrightstown-Taylorsville Road, Taylorsville, Pennsylvania

John Burroughs Homestead, also known as Shady Hill and the Lieutenant Colonel James Hendricks Headquarters, is a historic home located at Taylorsville, Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It is a house dated to the 18th century and built in four sections. The oldest section is a 2 12-story, uncoursed fieldstone structure. The second section is a 2 12-story, coursed fieldstone structure. The third section is a two-story, random-coursed fieldstone structure, and the fourth section is a small, one-story frame vestibule. Also on the property are a contributing 2 12-story, fieldstone carriage house, tool shed, and stone-and-frame caretaker's cottage.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

References

John Burroughs Homestead Wikipedia