The Schoonover Mountain House, also known as the Schoonover Farm, is an historic, American home that is located in
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area at
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 1979.
History and architectural features
The original section of this historic house was built roughly between 1850 and 1860, and was enlarged at least three times by 1900. It is a large, rambling, two-story, L-shaped, frame banked dwelling. It is five bays wide, 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. ...
covered gable roof, and features a one-story wraparound porch.
It was owned by the locally prominent Schoonover family, and was operated during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as a vacation and boarding house.
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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 1979.
References
{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Houses in Monroe County, Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places in Monroe County, Pennsylvania