The Matthew Hair Farm, also known as the Calvin Shaulis Farm and Fruit Crest, is an historic, American 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 in Jenner Township in

Somerset County, Pennsylvania Somerset County (Pennsylvania Dutch language, Pennsylvania German: ''Somerset Kaundi'') is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the po ...

. It was listed on the

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in 1996.

Histry and architectural features

This district includes three contributing buildings and three contributing structures. The buildings are a

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-inspired, vernacular, brick house (1817), a Germanic-influenced

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 ...

(c. 1870), and a kitchen/

spring house 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 ...

(c. 1850). The house is a -story, double-pile, modified, central-passage dwelling with a gable roof. It features a shed-roof front porch. The structures are a twentieth-century man-made pond, a

cistern A cistern (Middle English ', from Latin ', from ', "box", from Greek ', "basket") is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater. Cisterns are distinguished from wells by t ...

, and a

windmill A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called windmill sail, sails or blades, specifically to mill (grinding), mill grain (gristmills), but the term is also extended to windpumps, wind turbines, and ...

to pump water to the cistern. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the

in 1996.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hair, Matthew, Farm Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Georgian architecture in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1817 Houses in Somerset County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Somerset County, Pennsylvania Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania 1817 establishments in Pennsylvania