Normandy Farmstead

The story

Written by AI from this property's National Register nomination and the record above; every sentence is checked against its sources before it appears here. Corrections: privacy@treealive.com

Normandy Farmstead is a farm complex at 1411 Morris Rd. in Whitpain Township, Montgomery County, with eight contributing buildings. It was listed in the National Register in 2001. Its buildings date from c. 1834 to around 1920 in a mix of vernacular Federal, Dutch Colonial Revival and Norman styles.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criteria A and C, with local significance in agriculture and architecture. The nomination gives its period of significance as 1834 to 1951, running from the earliest building's construction c. 1834 to the sale of its dairy herd in 1951.

Physical character

The farmhouse has stuccoed walls, a gambrel roof, a Palladian window and a datestone reading 1834. The T-shaped bank barn has four cupolas and earthen ramps, and its stone silo gained a frame upper half story in 1880-1884. In 1923 the house was remodeled in Dutch Colonial Revival style, with a west addition and kitchen wing.

Historical context

William M. Singerly bought the property in 1873, and William Wilson sold tracts to Ralph Beaver Strassburger in 1913; the farm grew to 1,500 acres by 1941. Peter Strassburger died in 1993, the estate was reduced to 73 acres, and cousins sold it to Vesterra Corp.