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Ridgewood Farm

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NRHP Reference #
  
92000399

Year built
  
1809

Area
  
55 ha

Added to NRHP
  
7 May 1992

Ridgewood Farm

Location
  
Jct. of PA 724 and I-176, Cumru Township, Pennsylvania

Architectural style
  
Federal, Pennsylvania bank barn, Other

MPS
  
Farms in Berks County MPS

Ridgewood Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in Cumru Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It has eight contributing buildings and five contributing structures. They are a two story, vernacular Federal sandstone farmhouse (c. 1810); sandstone Pennsylvania bank barn (1809); sandstone summer kitchen / butcher house; 1 1/2-story, sandstone produce storage building (1810); ground cellar; stone wall; and other outbuildings. Also on the property are the remains of the Schuylkill Canal that operated from 1924 to 1932, and two railroad lines.

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

References

Ridgewood Farm Wikipedia