Stupp–Oxenrider Farm | |
Nrhp Type: | hd |
Nocat: | yes |
Coordinates: | 40.3822°N -76.1575°W |
Built: | c. 1784, c. 1790, c. 1850 |
Architecture: | Swiss bank house |
Added: | July 29, 1992 |
Refnum: | 92000932 |
The Stupp–Oxenrider Farm is an historic, American farm complex and national historic district that is located in North Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
This district has nine contributing buildings, one contributing site, and four contributing structures. They include a -story, log Swiss bank house (c. 1784), a two-story, log, tenant/grandfather's house (c. 1790), and a frame Pennsylvania bank barn (c. 1850). The remaining buildings include a stone summer kitchen/butcher house, a smokehouse, a blacksmith's shop, a wagon shed, a milk house, and an privy. The contributing structures are a chicken house, a brooder house, a pole shed, and a roofed spring. The contributing site is a limestone quarry.[1]
The original owners of the farm were ethnic German Swiss Mennonites. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.