Fretz Farm was a historic house and farm complex located in Doylestown Township Township,

Bucks County, Pennsylvania Bucks County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 646,538, making it the fourth-most populous county in Pennsylvania. Its county seat is Doylestown. The county is named after the Englis ...

. It had five contributing buildings and one contributing structure. They were the farmhouse, barn,

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, small barn /

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, old barn,

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, and pump house. The buildings were in the

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style. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the

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in 1985. It was delisted in 2012.

References

{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Italianate architecture in Pennsylvania Houses in Bucks County, Pennsylvania 1812 establishments in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Bucks County, Pennsylvania