Isaac Hunsberger House

The story

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The Isaac Hunsberger House is a stone and brick dwelling at 545 W. Ridge Pike in Limerick Township, Montgomery County, built in 1827 in the Georgian style, with later Victorian changes.

Why it's listed

It was listed in the National Register in 2000 under criterion C, with local-level significance in architecture spanning 1827 to 1926, reflecting its 1827 construction and a 1926 addition.

Physical character

Its walls are stone, brick, stucco and wood over a stone foundation, and the L-shaped house has a Georgian center hall plan, a gambrel roof, a gable roof, shingle roofing, a quoined Flemish bond brick facade, and a brick chimney. A porch was added around 1860 with chamfered posts and brackets, and later changes included Victorian-sash first-floor windows and a south door turned into a window in 1893, plus a two-floor addition into the kitchen ell and a shortened fireplace in 1926.

Historical context

Isaac Hunsberger purchased the farm in 1813 and had the house built by 1827. Isaac Tyson Hunsberger lived there until his 1854 death. The Limerick Township Historical Society leased the house in 1984, received it as a donation in 1994, and moved in during 1995; by the time of its listing the house served as a museum.