The Houseknecht Farm is an historic house and farm which are located in Moreland Township,

Lycoming County, Pennsylvania Lycoming County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 114,188. Its county seat is Williamsport. Lycoming County comprises the Williamsport metropolitan statistical area. About northwest ...

. 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 2007.

History and architectural features

The historic buildings located on this property are the farmhouse, which was built sometime around 1890, a three-gabled barn, which was also built circa 1890 and then later expanded, a three-bay, late nineteenth-century, machine/corn shed, a late nineteenth-century

granary A granary is a storehouse or room in a barn for threshed grain or animal feed. Ancient or primitive granaries are most often made of pottery. Granaries are often built above the ground to keep the stored food away from mice and other animal ...

with small attached garage that was erected circa 1915, a small machine shed that was also erected circa 1915, a

smokehouse A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke Smoke is a suspension of airborne particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with t ...

that was built circa 1890, and a summer kitchen/butcher house that was also built sometime around 1890, and which has an attached woodshed. The farmhouse is a two-story, four-bay, two-door house with a two-story ell. ''Note:'' This includes

References

{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1890 Houses in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania