Matthew Hair Farm Explained

Matthew Hair Farm
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:Off PA 601, 1 mi. N of Boswell, Jenner Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:40.1869°N -78.9989°W
Built:1817, c. 1850, 1870
Architecture:Georgian
Added:October 24, 1996
Refnum:96001207

The Matthew Hair Farm, also known as the Calvin Shaulis Farm and Fruit Crest, is an historic, American farm and national historic district located in Jenner Township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

History and architectural features

This district includes three contributing buildings and three contributing structures. The buildings are a Georgian-inspired, vernacular, brick house (1817), a Germanic-influenced bank barn (c. 1870), and a kitchen/spring house (c. 1850). The house is a -story, double-pile, modified, central-passage dwelling with a gable roof. It features a shed-roof front porch. The structures are a twentieth-century man-made pond, a cistern, and a windmill to pump water to the cistern.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania. CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Searchable database. Note: This includes Web site: [{{NRHP-PA|H093107_01H.pdf}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Matthew Hair Farm]. 2011-12-08. Clinton E. Piper . PDF. May 1996.