Star Barn Complex

	Star Barn Complex
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Nissley Dr. at PA 283, Lower Swatara Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°13′25″N 76°46′17″W / 40.22361°N 76.77139°WCoordinates: 40°13′25″N 76°46′17″W / 40.22361°N 76.77139°W
Area	3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built	1872
Architect	Reichert, Daniel
Architectural style	Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	00000845
Added to NRHP	July 27, 2000

Star Barn Complex, also known as the John Motter Barn and Outbuildings and "Walnut Hill," is a historic farm outbuilding complex located at Lower Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It includes a large barn, pig barn (c. 1872), carriage house (c. 1872), chicken coop (c. 1872), grain silo, and milk house. The main barn, known as the Star Barn, was built in 1872, and is a five bay, Gothic Revival style frame building. It features an immense cupola atop a cross-gable roof.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.^[1]

Move to Lancaster County[]

The Star Barn was dismantled beginning in October 2015 and then moved to a site in Lancaster County where it is being reassembled and preserved at the Ironestone Ranch in Elizabethtown.^[3]^[4]

References[]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Karen Arnold (March 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Star Barn Complex" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-12.
^ "Star Barn plans 'on track' for move to Lancaster County next year". 15 October 2015.
^ "Volunteers close to finishing historic Star Barn". Penn Live. July 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2018.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[arch-2] "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Karen Arnold (March 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Star Barn Complex" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-12.

[3] "Star Barn plans 'on track' for move to Lancaster County next year". 15 October 2015.

[4] "Volunteers close to finishing historic Star Barn". Penn Live. July 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2018.

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