Bellefonte Forge House
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Bellefonte Forge House
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Bellefonte Forge House, Spring Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania
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| Location | 110 Forge Rd Spring Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 40°54′21″N 77°46′41″W / 40.90583°N 77.77806°WCoordinates: 40°54′21″N 77°46′41″W / 40.90583°N 77.77806°W |
| Built | 1803 |
| Architect | Lowry, John G.; Patterson, John |
| Architectural style | Federal |
| NRHP Reference # | 99001020 |
| Added to NRHP | August 20, 1999 |
The Bellefonte Forge House, also known as the John Dunlop House, is located just south of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, in Spring Township, Centre County. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, due to its connection with prominent figures in the iron industry of the early 19th century and because of its domestic architecture influenced by the Federal style.
It was built in 1803 by an ironmaster, John Dunlop, who lived there with his wife and four daughters until he was killed in an iron mine collapse in October 1814. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Made of limestone, this 2 1⁄2-story house was constructed in the vernacular form of the Federal or Georgian style with ten and a half foot ceiling heights. It originally had nine fireplaces, but two were removed to make a modern kitchen in the 1930s. It is thought that a John G. Lowry was the architect, as he was the only registered architect in the area at that time and was also in the employment of his cousin, John Dunlop. Building receipts for the finish carpenter, John Patterson, can still be found in the Centre County Library and Historical Museum in Bellefonte.
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Bellefonte became the center of a large iron industry. John Dunlop was one of the most energetic and prosperous of those that went into that business, building Harmony Forge (1795), Belle Font Forge (1797), Logan Furnace (1797), and Washington Forge (1810). It was his father, Lt. Col. James Dunlop, and his brother-in-law, James Dunlop Harris (1797-1842) one time, Principal engineer of the Pennsylvania Main Line of Public works, who actually laid out the town, now a Borough, of Bellefonte from land that John Dunlop owned.
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