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Joseph Funk House

Joseph Funk House
Joseph Funk House is located in Virginia
Joseph Funk House
Joseph Funk House is located in the US
Joseph Funk House
Location VA 613, Singers Glen, Virginia
Coordinates 38°33′3″N 78°55′4″W / 38.55083°N 78.91778°W / 38.55083; -78.91778Coordinates: 38°33′3″N 78°55′4″W / 38.55083°N 78.91778°W / 38.55083; -78.91778
Area less than one acre
Built c. 1810 (1810)
NRHP Reference # 75002036
VLR # 0082-0069
Significant dates
Added to NRHP February 24, 1975
Designated VLR November 19, 1975

Joseph Funk House is a historic home located at Singers Glen, Rockingham County, Virginia. It was built about 1810, and is a 1 1/2-story, log dwelling with a gable roof and an undercut front gallery. The house is sheathed with weatherboarding. Its builder Joseph Funk (1777-1862), was a leader in the Mennonite faith and an influential musical theorist who was the grandson of a German Palatine settler of Bernese Swiss descent. The second-floor room where the printing press, formerly located in a separate building, was placed was originally a loom room. It was converted to a school room in 1837. The building served as Funk's publishing house from 1847 until 1878.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.



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