Mystery
House #24
Stately Stone

Photo courtesy the homeowner -- Published with permission.
Don from Pennsylvania sends us this mystery:
Our Pennsylvania Stone Farmhouse is a classic (what?). I have been studying various books on American Architecture and our house partially fits the Federal & Adam descriptions. We don't know when it was constructed although our bank barn appears to be of an 1840 vintage. The house has relatively simple details. It has a very narrow center hall with stair case. It had left and right parlors in front with two more rooms behind. The back rooms have fireplaces in their front corners. There are no fireplaces on the second floor and no indication of any removed.
There is an additional stone room off the back of the house that was a kitchen before it was renovated. There is also a frame summer kitchen closely situated to the house. By the way, the front porch is new in 1966; the previous porch covered about two thirds of the front of the house, but also may not have been original. I believe the dental molding at the roof line many also be a 1966 addition.
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