Brooke Manor House, Furnace Street, Birdsboro, Berks County, PA
Summary
Significance: "Brooke Manor" was the home for over one hundred years of a well-known iron-making family and was typical of manor houses that are now rapidly disappearing. The Brooke family owned Birdsboro, Hibernie, and Hopewell furnaces.
Survey number: HABS PA-1075
Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1865 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1880 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1961 Demolished
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Brooke, George
Brooke, Edward
Furness, Frank
Souder, Norman M, historian
Marshall, Cornelia Brooke, historian
Souder, Norman M, delineator
Milner, John, delineator
Location
Birdsboro (Pa.), 40.26615, -75.80829
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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