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Bowman's Castle, Front & Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA
Summary
Significance: Originally constructed by Jacob Bowman as a trading post & home, Bowman's Castle was both an important commercial enterprise on Pennsylvania's frontier and home to one of the area's most prominent citizens. Architecturally, the house is a good example of evolutionary change over time.
Survey number: HABS PA-429
Building/structure dates: 1789 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1835- ca. 1840 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: after. 1850- before. 1900 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: after 1963 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75001641
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Bowman, Jacob
Brownsville Historical Society
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Null, Druscilla J, historian
Booth, Francis, delineator
Gurland, Gerald, delineator
Volpe, Mario, delineator
Location
Brownsville Junction, 40.00101, -79.90611
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
