Fordhook Farm, also known as Burpee Farm, is an historic farm and national
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
located at
Doylestown Township
Doylestown Township is a township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The population was 17,565 at the 2010 United States census, 2010 census. Adjacent to the Doylestown, Pennsylvania, county seat, many county offices and t ...
,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 12 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures. They include the houses, barn,
spring house,
ice house,
carriage house, "farm house," "cottage" and seed house, and two
greenhouse
A greenhouse (also called a glasshouse, or, if with sufficient heating, a hothouse) is a structure with walls and roof made chiefly of Transparent ceramics, transparent material, such as glass, in which plants requiring regulated climatic condit ...
s. The main house is constructed of
fieldstone
Fieldstone is a naturally occurring type of stone, which lies at or near the surface of the Earth. Fieldstone is a nuisance for farmers seeking to expand their land under cultivation, but at some point it began to be used as a construction mate ...
, and the oldest section pre-dates 1798.
Washington Atlee Burpee (1858-1915) purchased the farm in 1888. The farm was used for experimentation and seed production by
Burpee Seeds until 1981.
[ ''Note:'' This includes ]
It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
References
External links
Burpee Farm
{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Historic districts in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places in Bucks County, Pennsylvania