George Diehl Homestead
George Diehl Homestead | |
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| Location | East of U.S. Route 422 on Diehl Road, east of Indiana, Cherryhill Township, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 40°36′29″N 78°58′44″W / 40.60806°N 78.97889°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | c. 1840 |
| Architectural style | corner post log house |
| NRHP reference No. | 87000672[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 30, 1987 |
The George Diehl Homestead is an historic, American home that is located in Cherryhill Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]
History and architectural features
[edit]Built circa 1840, this historic structure is a 2+1⁄2-story, rectangular, hewn-log building with a gable roof. It measures eighteen feet, six inches wide and twenty-eight feet, four inches long, and features mortise and tenon jointing, also known as corner-post construction, for the log structure. A fourteen-foot by twenty-eight-foot, four-inch, shed-roofed addition was built circa 1850.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "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 2011-12-05. Note: This includes Robert B. Schultz (April 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: George Diehl Homestead" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-12-04.
