John Roberts Stone House, 225 North Central Avenue, Canonsburg, Washington County, PA

Significance: It serves as one of the few remaining examples of Post Colonial architecture in western Pennsylvania built before 1815. The original house was a 2 story log structure to which extensions in stone were later erected. The first of the stone portions was added to the west wall and a year or so later the second was added to the south wall. This latter portion is a complete house in itself. The log house was torn down some 40 years later and the brick portion of the present structure erected in its place...

Survey number: HABS PA-1177

Building/structure dates: ca. 1805 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Subsequent Work

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1933 - 1970

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