Lundale Farm, House, State Route 100 (South Coventry Township), Pughtown, Chester County, PA
Summary
Significance: The house is a fine example of a well preserved late eighteenth-century local farmhouse which grew to accommodate the needs of the owners. The Townsends, owners during the eighteenth century, were a prominent family in Chester County politics. There is also a fine early eighteenth century springhouse on the property probably built by the original owner, James Pugh.
Survey number: HABS PA-1308
Building/structure dates: ca. 1796 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: after. 1800- before. 1833 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1950 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1930 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Townsend, Samuel
Pugh, James
Morris, Samuel
Morris, Eleanor
Burns, John A, project manager
Burns, Deborah S, field team
Dornbusch, Susan M, delineator
Chang, Pamela O'Malley, delineator
Burns, John A, delineator
Edwards, Elizabeth D, delineator
Burns, John A, photographer
Stein, Susan, historian
Burns, John A, historian
Location
Pughtown, 40.16691, -75.66600
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