Rhoads Homestead | |
Location | 102-106 W. Bridge St., New Hope, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 40°21′57.4″N 74°57′23.1″W / 40.365944°N 74.956417°W |
Area | 60.1 acres (24.3 ha) |
Built | 1734, 1760, 1776, 1858 |
MPS | New Hope MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 85003655 [1] |
Added to NRHP | August 8, 1996 |
The Rhoads Homestead is an historic, American homestead that is located in New Hope, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
The farmhouse consists of two sections; the oldest was built circa 1734. The first section is a 2+1⁄2-story, fieldstone structure with an attached, one-story, sloped-roof, fieldstone addition. A second house dates to 1760 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, fieldstone dwelling that was remodeled during the nineteenth century in the Victorian style. It has a two-story, stone addition and a one-story board-and-batten addition.
Associated with this house are stone spring houses, board-and-batten woodsheds, a clapboard pump shelter, and the ruins of a small bank barn. The third house was built in 1858 and is a small 2+1⁄2-story, board-and-batten dwelling that was built to house servants.
This homestead was the site of General William Alexander's three week bivouac prior to the Battle of Trenton from December 8 through December 25, 1776. [2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]