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Pine Forge Mansion and Industrial Site

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Built
  
c. 1730, 1800, 1918

Area
  
9.7 ha

Architect
  
R. Brognard Okie

NRHP Reference #
  
04000191

Added to NRHP
  
18 March 2004

Pine Forge Mansion and Industrial Site

Location
  
Pine Forge Rd and Douglass Dr., Pine Forge, Douglass Township, Pennsylvania

Architectural style
  
Early Republic, Federal

MPS
  
Iron and Steel Resources of Pennsylvania MPS

Pine Forge Mansion and Industrial Site, also known as Rutter's Mansion and Pine Forge Iron Plantation, is a historic iron plantation and mansion and national historic district located in Douglass Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It has five contributing buildings, four contributing sites, and one contributing structure. They are the stone mansion or manor house, stone root cellar and smokehouse, "caretaker's cottage," garage, and small stone "worker's" house. The original section of the manor house was built about 1730, with additions made about 1800 and in 1918. The contributing sites are the remains of a dam, remains of a grist mill, and ruins of two stone buildings. The contributing structure is the remains of a mill race. The property now the site of Pine Forge Academy.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

References

Pine Forge Mansion and Industrial Site Wikipedia