Roughly bounded by Church Rd., Sinking Springs Ln., N. George St., Locust Ln., Susquehanna Trail and PA 238, Manchester, Pennsylvania. County/parish: York.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 27, 2000. NRIS 00000848.
32 contributing buildings. 2 contributing sites. 17 contributing structures.
Sinking Springs Farms is a historic farm and national historic district located at Manchester Township in York County, Pennsylvania.
The district includes 32 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 17 contributing structures. The district includes the Manor House Demesne, four farmsteads, and a Radio Broadcast Complex. The manor house dates to 1900, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, Colonial Revival-style dwelling modified between 1936 and 1941.
Farmstead #1 includes the earliest buildings, dated to about 1841. Farmstead #2 includes a Shingle Style dwelling designed by architect John A. Dempwolf and built about 1893. Farmstead #3 has a 3+1⁄2-story, banked Pennsylvania German dwelling built about 1845.
Farmstead #4 has a 3+1⁄2-story, banked Georgian-plan dwelling built about 1845. The Radio Broadcast Complex includes a 2+1⁄2-story, brick Colonial Revival-style office building and four radio towers, and used as a radio station from the 1940s until 1990.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996369