Sinking Springs Farms is a historic 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 at Manchester Township in

York County, Pennsylvania York County ( Pennsylvania Dutch: Yarrick Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 456,438. Its county seat is York. The county was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster ...

. The district includes 32 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 17 contributing structures. The district includes the Manor House Demesne, four farmsteads, and a Radio Broadcast Complex. The manor house dates to 1900, and is a -story,

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

-style dwelling modified between 1936 and 1941. Farmstead #1 includes the earliest buildings, dated to about 1841. Farmstead #2 includes a Shingle Style dwelling designed by architect

John A. Dempwolf John A. Dempwolf (1848–1926) was a German-born American architect practicing in York, Pennsylvania from 1876 until his death in 1926. In association with his brother Reinhardt Dempwolf and son Frederick G. Dempwolf, he was responsible for the ...

and built about 1893. Farmstead #3 has a -story, banked Pennsylvania German dwelling built about 1845. Farmstead #4 has a -story, banked Georgian-plan dwelling built about 1845. The Radio Broadcast Complex includes a -story, brick Colonial Revival-style office building and four radio towers, and used as a radio station from the 1940s until 1990. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the

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in 2000. Sinking Springs Farm Emigsville PA.JPG, Barn off Sinking Springs Road

References

{{Authority control Buildings and structures in York County, Pennsylvania Colonial Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Houses in York County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in York County, Pennsylvania Shingle Style architecture in Pennsylvania