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Matthew Hair Farm

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Built
  
1817, c. 1850, 1870

Area
  
44 ha

Added to NRHP
  
24 October 1996

NRHP Reference #
  
96001207

Architectural style
  
Georgian architecture

Matthew Hair Farm

Location
  
Off PA 601, 1 mi. N of Boswell, Jenner Township, Pennsylvania

Matthew Hair Farm, also known as the Calvin Shaulis Farm and Fruit Crest, is a historic farm and national historic district located at Jenner Township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The district includes three contributing buildings and three contributing structures. The buildings are a Georgian-inspired vernacular brick house (1817), Germanic-influenced bank barn (c. 1870), and a kitchen / spring house (c. 1850). The house is a 2 1/2-story, double pile, modified central passage dwelling with a gable roof. It features a shed roof front porch. The structures are a 20th-century man-made pond, a cistern, and a windmill to pump water to the cistern.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

References

Matthew Hair Farm Wikipedia