Gershom Craft House

Gershom Craft House

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location= Morrisville, Pennsylvania
lat_degrees = 40
lat_minutes = 12
lat_seconds = 8
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 74
long_minutes = 47
long_seconds = 25
long_direction = W
locmapin = Pennsylvania
area =
built =1806
architect= Unknown
architecture= Federal
added = October 16, 1986
governing_body = Private
refnum=86002892cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] The Gershom Craft House (c.1806-1808), also known as Pomona Farm, was added to the National Register of Historic Places of the United States in 1986. The significance of the house lies both in its architectural and historical associations.

The house is an excellent example of Federal style architecture as found in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, combining the vernacular with Federalist ideals of proportion and decoration. The four main rooms of the house are each approximately convert|18|ft|m square by nine feet high. Ninety percent of the woodwork and hardware in the house are original.

Its original owner and builder, Trenton businessman Gershom Craft, built the house and surrounding 84 acre farm as a summer home. Craft planted over 100 different species of fruits on the farm and named it after the Roman goddess of fruit trees, Pomona. Craft was influential in business and politics at the local level, owning a Federalist newspaper and being involved in the Trenton Water Works and Trenton Banking Company.

The farm was subdivided in 1911 and annexed to the Borough of Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It is one of only two houses in Morrisville on the National Register, the other being Summerseat, host to General George Washington during the days leading up to the Battle of Trenton. The Gershom Craft House now sits on a heavily landscaped convert|.75|acre|m2|sing=on lot. Also included on the property are a smokehouse, carriage house, and wood frame shop.

References

cite web
url = http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display.cfm/89386
title = Philadelphia Buildings Register
accessdate = 2008-01-08


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