George Diehl Homestead

{{short description|Historic house in Pennsylvania, United States}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = George Diehl Homestead

| nrhp_type =

| image = George Diehl Farmhouse.jpg

| caption = Road view

| location = East of U.S. Route 422 on Diehl Road, east of Indiana, Cherryhill Township, Pennsylvania

| coordinates = {{coord|40|36|29|N|78|58|44|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Pennsylvania#USA

| built = c. 1840

| architecture = corner post log house

| added = April 30, 1987

| area = less than one acre

| refnum = 87000672{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

The George Diehl Homestead is an historic, American home that is located in Cherryhill Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

History and architectural features

Built circa 1840, this historic structure is a {{frac|2|1|2}}-story, rectangular, hewn-log building with a gable roof. It measures eighteen feet, six inches wide and twenty-eight feet, four inches long, and features mortise and tenon jointing, also known as corner-post construction, for the log structure. A fourteen-foot by twenty-eight-foot, four-inch, shed-roofed addition was built circa 1850.{{cite web| url = https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| title = National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania| publisher = CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System| format = Searchable database| access-date = 2011-12-05| archive-date = 2007-07-21| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070721014609/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| url-status = dead}} Note: This includes {{cite web| url = {{NRHP-PA|H082495_01H.pdf}}| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: George Diehl Homestead| accessdate = 2011-12-04| author = Robert B. Schultz| format = PDF| date = April 1986}}

George Diehl Homestead

History and architectural features

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