National Register of Historic Places
Booth Farm
Boothwyn, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
The record
- Listed
- June 13, 2003
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 3221 Foulk Rd., Boothwyn
- County
- Delaware
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Period of significance
- 1800 to 1974
- Contributing resources
- 4 buildings, 1 structure, 1 site
- Coordinates
- 39.85474, -75.49107
- Reference number
- 03000527
The story
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Booth Farm is a stone farmhouse and farmstead at 3221 Foulk Rd. in Boothwyn, Delaware County. The farmhouse was built in 1819 in the Federal style and was listed in the National Register in 2003.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in agriculture and architecture, and its period of significance runs from 1819 to 1953, reflecting the farmhouse's 1819 construction.
Physical character
The stone farmhouse has a gambrel roof of shake shingles installed in 2000, interior end brick chimneys, Dutch doors and a round-arched, fanlighted entrance. Inside, back-to-back angled corner fireplaces and a beehive oven flank a central enclosed winder stair. A central cross gable added around the 1870s was removed in 1950, and a Victorian porch was removed in 1979 when a compatible kitchen addition was built. The farm includes a Pennsylvania bank barn, and some outbuildings have board and batten siding.
Historical context
Thomas Booth bought the property in the 1790s; Thomas D. Smith lived there as tenant farmer from 1932 to 1978. In 1910 a tenant set fire to the barn, which was rebuilt with a new frame superstructure that year. The Booth family moved back into the farmstead in 1979.