National Register of Historic Places
Dager-Wonsettler Farmstead
Listed federally as Dager--Wonsettler Farmstead
Glyde vicinity, Washington County, Pennsylvania
The record
- Listed
- November 21, 2003
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 1044 National Park, 1/2 mi. NW of Jct. PA 519 and US 40 (Amwell Township), Glyde vicinity
- County
- Washington
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Period of significance
- 1800 to 1899
- Contributing resources
- 3 buildings
- Coordinates
- 40.13018, -80.14749
- Reference number
- 03001192
The story
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The Dager-Wonsettler Farmstead is a farm complex of three contributing buildings near Glyde in Amwell Township, Washington County, listed in the National Register in 2003. Its log house shows dogtrot cabin and I-house forms, while its brick house shows Greek Revival and Renaissance Italian church facade styling.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criterion C, with local-level significance in architecture, and criteria consideration G. Its period of significance runs from about 1820 to 1880, reflecting construction that began around 1820.
Physical character
The log house has hewn, steeple-notched log walls on a tooled and vermiculated sandstone foundation, with six-over-six windows and a porch on chamfered posts. The brick house has a common-bond brick facade, a tripartite doorway with decorative glass sidelights, and a massive chimney of brick and stone. A pegged-frame Pennsylvania bank barn, known as the Wonsettler barn, has a gambrel roof. A small porch on the east side of the house was enclosed about 1980.
Historical context
John McMillan built the log house in 1780, and the land was warranted and patented to Elizabeth Dager in 1786 and 1788. The log house served as an academy in 1790. Samuel Wonsettler bought the farm in 1871, and William Myers bought it in 1885.