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.