Hunter's Mill Complex | |
 House | |
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| Location | Forgedale Road, Hereford Township, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 40°25′41″N 75°37′15″W / 40.42806°N 75.62083°W |
| Area | 11 acres (4.5 ha) |
| Built | 1792-1793, 1794 |
| Architectural style | Georgian, Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 88003045[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 22, 1988 |
The Hunter's Mill Complex, also known as Rush's Mill, is an historic grist mill complex which is located on a rise above Perkiomen Creek in Hereford Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
History and architectural features
The complex consists of a three-story mill that built roughly between 1792 and 1793, a two-and-one-half-story, five-bay, Federal-style, stone dwelling that was built in 1794, a mid-nineteenth century, stone and frame, Pennsylvania bank barn, two one-and-one-half-story stone summer kitchens, and a late eighteenth-century stone walled garden. The mill measures forty-five feet by thirty-six feet. The house has a Georgian floor plan and measures forty-five feet by forty-five feet.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]
Gallery
Barn from Forgedale Road
Front of barn
Mill
References
- 1 2 "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 2012-09-15. Note: This includes Holly K. Green and Jerry Clouse (September 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Hunter's Mill Complex" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-08-22.
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