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Matthew Hair Farm

Matthew Hair Farm
Matthew Hair Farm House.jpg
Farmhouse in October 2014
Matthew Hair Farm is located in Pennsylvania
Matthew Hair Farm
Matthew Hair Farm is located in the US
Matthew Hair Farm
Location Off PA 601, 1 mi. N of Boswell, Jenner Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°11′13″N 78°59′56″W / 40.18694°N 78.99889°W / 40.18694; -78.99889Coordinates: 40°11′13″N 78°59′56″W / 40.18694°N 78.99889°W / 40.18694; -78.99889
Area 110 acres (45 ha)
Built 1817, c. 1850, 1870
Architectural style Georgian
NRHP reference # 96001207
Added to NRHP October 24, 1996

Matthew Hair Farm, also known as the Calvin Shaulis Farm and Fruit Crest, is a historic farm and national historic district located at Jenner Township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The district includes three contributing buildings and three contributing structures. The buildings are a Georgian-inspired vernacular brick house (1817), Germanic-influenced bank barn (c. 1870), and a kitchen / spring house (c. 1850). The house is a 2 1/2-story, double pile, modified central passage dwelling with a gable roof. It features a shed roof front porch. The structures are a 20th-century man-made pond, a cistern, and a windmill to pump water to the cistern.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.



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