Hunter's Mill Complex

United States historic place


Hunter's Mill Complex
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

House
40°25′41″N 75°37′15″W / 40.42806°N 75.62083°W / 40.42806; -75.62083
Area	11 acres (4.5 ha)
Built	1792-1793, 1794
Architectural style	Georgian, Federal
NRHP reference No.	88003045^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 22, 1988

The Hunter's Mill Complex, also known as Rush's Mill, is an historic grist mill complex which is located on a rise above Perkiomen Creek in Hereford Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

History and architectural features

The complex consists of a three-story mill that built roughly between 1792 and 1793, a two-and-one-half-story, five-bay, Federal-style, stone dwelling that was built in 1794, a mid-nineteenth century, stone and frame, Pennsylvania bank barn, two one-and-one-half-story stone summer kitchens, and a late eighteenth-century stone walled garden. The mill measures forty-five feet by thirty-six feet. The house has a Georgian floor plan and measures forty-five feet by forty-five feet.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.^[1]

Gallery

Barn from Forgedale Road
Front of barn
Mill

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2012-09-15. Note: This includes Holly K. Green and Jerry Clouse (September 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Hunter's Mill Complex" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-08-22.