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Stupp–Oxenrider Farm

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NRHP Reference #
  
92000932

Added to NRHP
  
29 July 1992

Area
  
38 ha

Stupp–Oxenrider Farm

Location
  
Dundore Road northwest of Robesonia, North Heidelberg Township, Pennsylvania

Built
  
c. 1784, c. 1790, c. 1850

Architectural style
  
Other, Swiss bank house

MPS
  
Farms in Berks County MPS

Stupp–Oxenrider Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in North Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It has nine contributing buildings, one contributing site, and four contributing structures. They include a 2 1/2-story, log Swiss bank house (c. 1784); 2-story, log, tenant / grandfather's house (c. 1790); and frame Pennsylvania bank barn (c. 1850). The remaining buildings include a stone summer kitchen / butcher house, smokehouse, blacksmith's shop, wagon shed, milk house, and privy. The contributing structures are a chicken house, brooder house, pole shed, and roofed spring. The contributing site is a limestone quarry.

The original owners of the farm were ethnic German Swiss Mennonites. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

References

Stupp–Oxenrider Farm Wikipedia