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Brockerhoff Hotel is a historic hotel located at Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1866, and is a large brick building on a stone foundation, measuring 170 feet by 60 feet. The original building was executed in the Italianate style. It was renovated in the 1880s to have a
mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof (also called a French roof or curb roof) is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper. The ...
in a combined Second Empire / Queen Anne style. The roof features multicolored
slate Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...
. The building was built by Henry Brockerhoff (1794-1878), who also built the
Brockerhoff Mill Brockerhoff Mill, also known as Roopsburg Mill, is a historic grist mill located at Benner Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1862, and is a four-story brick building on a limestone foundation. It measures 56 feet by 40 ...
. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1977. It is located in the Bellefonte Historic District.


References


External links


Brockerhoff Hotel: Virtual Walking Tour of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, Bellefonte Historical and Cultural Association website


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Contributing property In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distri ...
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Cultural landscape Cultural landscape is a term used in the fields of geography, ecology, and heritage studies, to describe a symbiosis of human activity and environment. As defined by the World Heritage Committee, it is the "cultural properties hatrepresent the co ...
* Historic preservation * Keeper of the Register * List of heritage registers * Property type (National Register of Historic Places) * United States National Register of Historic Places listings * State Historic Preservation Office {{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Pennsylvania Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Italianate architecture in Pennsylvania Second Empire architecture in Pennsylvania Queen Anne architecture in Pennsylvania Hotel buildings completed in 1866 Buildings and structures in Centre County, Pennsylvania 1866 establishments in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Centre County, Pennsylvania