McCalls Ferry Farm

McCalls Ferry Farm
Location 447 McCalls Ferry Rd., Lower Chanceford Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 39°49′30″N 76°21′22″W / 39.82500°N 76.35611°W / 39.82500; -76.35611Coordinates: 39°49′30″N 76°21′22″W / 39.82500°N 76.35611°W / 39.82500; -76.35611
Area 300 acres (120 ha)
Architectural style Other, Pennsylvania German
NRHP Reference # 00001344[1]
Added to NRHP November 8, 2000

McCalls Ferry Farm, also known as the Robert and Matthew McCall Farm, Atkins-Trout Farm, and Kilgore Farm, is a historic farm and national historic district located at Lower Chanceford Township in York County, Pennsylvania. The district includes six contributing buildings and two contributing sites. The buildings are the farmhouse (c. 1790), Sweitzer barn (c. 1799), frame corn barn (c. 1799), tobacco barn (c. 1875), milk house (c. 1910), and chicken house (c. 1950). The farmhouse is a banked Pennsylvania German vernacular dwelling built of stone and coated in stucco. It measures 40 feet wide and 30 feet deep, and has a slate covered gable roof. The sites are the stone foundation of a scale house (c. 1875) and the ruins of a small dwelling (c. 1900).[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes B. Raid (February 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: McCalls Ferry Farm" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-12-21.


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