Lenhart Farm is a historic house and farm complex located in

Lenhartsville Lenhartsville is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania. The population was 165 at the 2010 census. Geography Lenhartsville is located in northern Berks County at (40.573438, -75.886717), in the valley of Maiden Creek. It is surrounded by Gre ...

Berks County, Pennsylvania Berks County ( Pennsylvania German: ''Barricks Kaundi'') is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 428,849. The county seat is Reading. The Schuylkill River, a tributary of the Delaware Ri ...

. The house was built by about 1830, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay,

brownstone Brownstone is a brown Triassic–Jurassic sandstone that was historically a popular building material. The term is also used in the United States and Canada to refer to a townhouse clad in this or any other aesthetically similar material. Type ...

dwelling in the

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style. Also on the property are a stone and frame

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 ...

(1841),

springhouse A spring house, or springhouse, is a small building, usually of a single room, constructed over a spring. While the original purpose of a springhouse was to keep the spring water clean by excluding fallen leaves, animals, etc., the enclosing stru ...

carriage house A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is an outbuilding which was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and the related tack. In Great Britain the farm building was called a cart shed. These typically were open f ...

, and a number of farm-related outbuildings. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on 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 1978.

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Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Georgian architecture in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1830 Houses in Berks County, Pennsylvania 1830 establishments in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Berks County, Pennsylvania {{BerksCountyPA-NRHP-stub