Brinton-King 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

The Brinton-King Farmstead is a farmhouse at 1301 Brinton's Bridge Rd., also addressed as 162 Baltimore Pike, in Pennsbury, Chester County. Built as a Pennsylvania farmhouse around 1780 with a stone kitchen wing added by 1798, the house was remodeled in the Queen Anne style around 1889.

Why it's listed

The farmstead was listed under criterion C, with local-level significance in architecture. Its period of significance is given as about 1780 to 1924, from the house's earliest construction to the Ford family's 1924 sale of the farm.

Physical character

The house has stucco walls on a stone foundation, a steeply pitched hipped roof of asphalt shingle with cross-gables and a quarter turret, and a wrap-around porch with turned supports, brackets and spindlework. Franklin Swayne remodeled the house between 1895 and 1910; around 1910 its interior was reworked, Art Nouveau mantelpieces were added, and a windbreak was removed.

Historical context

James Brinton died in 1810 and left the farm to Joseph Brinton. Brinton King inherited Joseph Brinton's farm in 1884 and sold it to George D. King in 1888. The Dario family subdivided the property in 1947. At the time of its listing, the farmstead was used commercially, as a restaurant and a business.