William and Mordecai Evans House

The story

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The William and Mordecai Evans House is a dwelling at 1206 Main St. in Linfield, Limerick Township, Montgomery County. The log section was built about 1720, and a stone addition was added onto the east gable about 1763.

Why it's listed

It was listed in the National Register in 2005 under criterion C, with local-level significance in architecture. The nomination gives its period of significance as about 1720 to 1763, matching the log house's construction.

Physical character

The log walls are hand-adzed, dovetailed oak beneath stucco on a stone foundation, and the gambrel roof is wood shingle. Interior features include a corbelled chimney wall with a raised-panel breast, a windowed inglenook, and hand-forged H-and-L hinges. The building took its present form in stages: both porches were enclosed in the 1930s, and in 1984 a one-and-a-half-story frame addition was built at the log section's west end and the porch kitchen there was removed. The nomination names Peter Zimmerman, FAIA, as architect.

Historical context

William and Ann Evans arrived in Pennsylvania in 1698, and their son William married in 1720, bringing his bride to the log house, where the first of their six children was born in 1721. General Washington briefly used the house as headquarters in 1777.