Townsend House (Pughtown, Pennsylvania)

Townsend House, also known as Lundale Farm, is a historic home located near Pughtown in South Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in three phases. The oldest section dates to 1796, with additions made in the early 19th century, and in 1950. The main house was built in the first two phases and is a ​2 1⁄2-story, five-bay, random fieldstone structure coated in stucco. It has a gable roof and a brick chimney at the west gable end. The 1950 addition is a ​2 1⁄2-story structure attached at the east end. Also on the property is a stone springhouse dated to the early 18th century.[2]

Townsend House
Lundale Farmhouse, HABS Photo
LocationSouthwest of Pughtown off Pennsylvania Route 100, South Coventry Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°9′51″N 75°40′21″W
Built1796
ArchitectTownsend, Samuel
NRHP reference No.74001773[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 16, 1974

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

  • HABS Drawing, 1975
gollark: The Casio graphing ones which are popular here have some weird Renesas microcontrollers.
gollark: I guess it could *technically* go on your lap.
gollark: I mean, it's obviously much worse in terms of calculation throughput.
gollark: You mean faster as in latency or boot time or what?
gollark: Calculators are a vaguely weird and annoying product because they're very expensive, worse than equivalent general-purpose computing things like phones, and basically *only* exist for exams.

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). ARCH: Pennsylvania's Historic Architecture & Archaeology. Retrieved 2012-11-02. Note: This includes Eleanor Winsor (September 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: Townsend House" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-11-17.


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