Pfarr Log House
Pfarr Log House | |
Location | Olive Branch-Stonelick Rd., Milford, Ohio |
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Coordinates | 39°6′55″N 84°12′38.5″W / 39.11528°N 84.210694°WCoordinates: 39°6′55″N 84°12′38.5″W / 39.11528°N 84.210694°W |
Area | Less than 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
Built | 1825 |
Architectural style | Log cabin |
NRHP reference No. | 77001048[1] |
Added to NRHP | September 16, 1977 |
The Pfarr Log House is a log cabin located near the village of Milford in rural Clermont County, Ohio, United States. Built in the early nineteenth century, it provides a pivotal representation of the area's earliest built environment, and it has been named a historic site. This cabin is known primarily as a property of the Pfarr family because it was purchased by George Pfarr in late 1840 as part of a 21-acre homestead, and it remained in the Pfarr family until it was sold to James Wiederhold in 1976. George, a butcher and farmer, immigrated from Bavaria with his wife and three children, and the property was actively farmed until the 1960s by his children and grandchildren.
Although primarily a log building, the house rests on a stone foundation; the roof is metal,[2] constructed with a very shallow pitch from the edge to the peaks of the gables. The structure is one and a half stories tall with walls built of square-cut timbers, rather than unhewn logs. The joints between the timbers feature a construction method known as "steeple notching", which was often employed in buildings constructed before 1825.[3]
Comparatively little is known of the house's early history before the terminus ante quem of construction, 1825; a precise date of construction has not been established, and the builder's name is similarly unknown. A newer farmhouse was built next to the cabin in the early 1900s, and when the Pfarrs expanded this newer residence, the cabin was moved in 1910 to make room.[3]
In September 1977, the Pfarr Log House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places; despite having been moved in 1910, it qualified because of its historically significant architecture.[1]
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- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Pfarr Log House, Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Accessed 2014-02-09.
- ^ a b Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. Vol. 1. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 143.
- Houses in Clermont County, Ohio
- National Register of Historic Places in Clermont County, Ohio
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
- Log cabins in the United States
- Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
- Houses completed in 1825
- 1825 establishments in Ohio