Joseph Funk House Explained

Joseph Funk House
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:November 19, 1975[1]
Designated Other1 Number:082-0069
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Coordinates:38.5508°N -78.9178°W
Built:c.
Added:February 24, 1975
Area:Less than
Refnum:75002036

Joseph Funk House is a historic home located at Singers Glen, Rockingham County, Virginia. It was built about 1810, and is a -story, log dwelling with a gable roof and an undercut front gallery. The house is sheathed with weatherboarding. Its builder Joseph Funk (1777-1862), was a leader in the Mennonite faith and an influential musical theorist who was the grandson of a German Palatine settler of Bernese Swiss descent. The second-floor room where the printing press, formerly located in a separate building, was placed was originally a loom room. It was converted to a school room in 1837. The building served as Funk's publishing house from 1847 until 1878.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Joseph Funk House. Martha B. Caldwell and Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff . August 1974. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo