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Enoch Roberts House, also known as the Trainer Mansion, is a historic home located at Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1814, and is a -story, five-bay, plastered
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dwelling in a vernacular
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style. It has an original stone rear kitchen ell. It has a
gable roof A gable roof is a roof consisting of two sections whose upper horizontal edges meet to form its ridge. The most common roof shape in cold or temperate climates, it is constructed of rafters, roof trusses or purlins. The pitch of a gable roof ca ...
with
dormer A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof. A dormer window (also called ''dormer'') is a form of roof window. Dormers are commonly used to increase the usable space ...
s added in the 1830s and a semi-circular entrance
portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...
added in the 1940s. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1986.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Enoch, House Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1814 Houses in Bucks County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Bucks County, Pennsylvania