William Patterson House, Taneytown Road (Route 134), Pleasonton Avenue vicinity, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

Significance: It is an altered two-bay, rectangular farm house, constructed by Samuel Patterson around 1798. Originally a 1 1/2 story log house, it was raised to 2 stories; and a stone kitchen was added to the east gable end before 1825. A cellar was also built into the eastern half of the house, with the original exterior entrance on the south elevation. It was later closed with stone, and a new exterior brick entrance was constructed on the north side. In the early 1930s the stone kitchen was replaced with a poorly constructed frame kitchen, built on the original foundation on the stone addition...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-288

Survey number: HABS PA-580

Building/structure dates: ca. 1798 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: before 1825 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: ca. 1930 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1982 Subsequent Work

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