Robert Parkinson Farm

The story

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The Robert Parkinson Farm is a farm property on PA 18, 0.4 miles north of Old Concord Village in Morris Township, Washington County, with its farmhouse built around 1830 in the Greek Revival style.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criterion A, with local-level significance in agriculture; the nomination gives its period of significance as about 1830 to 1950, matching its years as a sheep farm.

Physical character

The farmhouse follows a five-bay, center-passage plan under a side-gable roof, with weatherboard walls on a stone foundation, an asphalt roof, and pegged frame construction. A Pennsylvania banked barn has an enclosed forebay and straw shed with a threshing floor inside, and a sheep barn was added around 1870. The house gained a one-story addition on its northeast side in 1959 and a kitchen addition in 1995, and a vinyl bay window around 1990.

Historical context

Thomas Barclay received a warrant for the land in 1792; Job Babbitt held it by 1793 and received a patent in 1812. Robert Parkinson bought 123 acres in 1821. Odel Parkinson was the county's only wool buyer in 1915 and bought the farm in 1920; it later passed to Lindsey Evans Parcell in 1956 and Helen Vogt in 1968.