The John Michael Farm is an historic American farm complex that is located in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. 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 1980.

History and architectural features

Built circa 1875, this historic structure is a two-story, frame building that sits on a

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 ...

foundation. Designed in a Late Victorian style, it has a

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. ...

roof and

stucco Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and a ...

-coated, flared brick chimney. Also located on the property are a one-room wash house (c. 1875), a large frame Pennsylvania

bank barn A bank barn or banked barn is a style of barn noted for its accessibility, at ground level, on two separate levels. Often built into the side of a hill, or bank, both the upper and the lower floors area could be accessed from ground level, one are ...

with a shed addition and

silo A silo (from the Greek σιρός – ''siros'', "pit for holding grain") is a structure for storing bulk materials. Silos are used in agriculture to store fermented feed known as silage, not to be confused with a grain bin, which is used t ...

, and a wagon shed. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the

in 1980.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Michael, John, Farm Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1875 Houses in Monroe County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Monroe County, Pennsylvania