Hunter's Mill Complex
Hunter's Mill Complex | |
House | |
40°25′41″N 75°37′15″W / 40.42806°N 75.62083°W / 40.42806; -75.62083 | |
Area | 11 acres (4.5 ha) |
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Built | 1792-1793, 1794 |
Architectural style | Georgian, Federal |
NRHP reference No. | 88003045[1] |
Added to NRHP | December 22, 1988 |
The Hunter's Mill Complex, also known as Rush's Mill, is an historic grist mill complex which is located on a rise above Perkiomen Creek in Hereford Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
History and architectural features
The complex consists of a three-story mill that built roughly between 1792 and 1793, a two-and-one-half-story, five-bay, Federal-style, stone dwelling that was built in 1794, a mid-nineteenth century, stone and frame, Pennsylvania bank barn, two one-and-one-half-story stone summer kitchens, and a late eighteenth-century stone walled garden. The mill measures forty-five feet by thirty-six feet. The house has a Georgian floor plan and measures forty-five feet by forty-five feet.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]
Gallery
- Barn from Forgedale Road
- Front of barn
- Mill
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2012-09-15. Note: This includes Holly K. Green and Jerry Clouse (September 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Hunter's Mill Complex" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-08-22.
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