Reiff Farm

Reiff Farm

House and outbuilding
Location Southwest of Oley on Township 454, Oley Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°22′55″N 75°48′30″W / 40.38194°N 75.80833°W / 40.38194; -75.80833Coordinates: 40°22′55″N 75°48′30″W / 40.38194°N 75.80833°W / 40.38194; -75.80833
Area less than one acre
Built by Reiff, Conrad, III
Architectural style Georgian
NRHP Reference # 82003759[1]
Added to NRHP February 25, 1982

Reiff Farm is a historic home and farm complex located in Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The main farmhouse is a  2 1⁄2-story, five-bay by two-bay, Georgian-style dwelling built of fieldstone. The property includes a  2 1⁄2-story, log house built between 1742 and 1800, but possibly as early as 1709, along with a variety of outbuildings. Outbuildings include an implement shed and workshop, pig barn, combination spring house and smokehouse, summer kitchen and bake oven, ice house, and combination butcher shop and blacksmith shop (1742). Six of the outbuildings have red clay tile roofs.[2]

Main house

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Susan M. Kurtz and E. Garrett Brinton (July 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Reiff Farm" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-08-22.


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