McCalls Ferry Farm explained

McCalls Ferry Farm
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Coordinates:39.825°N -76.3561°W
Architecture:Pennsylvania German
Added:November 8, 2000
Refnum:00001344

The McCalls Ferry Farm, also known as the Robert and Matthew McCall Farm, Atkins-Trout Farm, and Kilgore Farm, is an historic, American farm and national historic district located in Lower Chanceford Township in York County, Pennsylvania.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

History and architectural features

This district includes six contributing buildings and two contributing sites. The buildings are the farmhouse (c. 1790), Sweitzer barn (c. 1799), frame corn barn (c. 1799), tobacco barn (c. 1875), milk house (c. 1910), and chicken house (c. 1950). The farmhouse is a banked, Pennsylvania German, vernacular dwelling built of stone and coated in stucco. It measures forty feet wide and thirty feet deep, and has a slate-covered gable roof. The sites are the stone foundation of a scale house (c. 1875) and the ruins of a small dwelling (c. 1900).[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

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|H112021_01H.pdf}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: McCalls Ferry Farm]. 2011-12-21. B. Raid. PDF. February 2000.