Keim Homestead Floor Plans Readnig Eagle

Keim homestead national historic landmark dedication celebration.

Keim homestead floor plans readnig eagle.

What a wonderful way to celebrate heritage the dedication of the jacob keim homestead as a national historic landmark from 10 4 pm at the homestead and then gathering together as family. Turn right onto boyer road and proceed approximately 500 yards. The house has a minimally altered germanic kuche stube kammer floor plan and the ancillary building is a rare surviving example of a stove room plan laid out for pre revolution craft shop use. Below is the nomination application.

There will be 70 of us for dinner that day. Proceed to boyer road. Looking forward to seeing the johannes keim descendants on july 15th at the keim homestead. The keim homestead is a historic farm on boyer road in pike township berks county pennsylvania it was built in 1753 for jacob keim and his wife magdalena hoch on land given to the couple by her father.

Evidence of an early wood turner s lathe survives. Keim homestead nhl nomination. Jacob was the son of johannes keim who immigrated from germany in 1689 and scouted the pennsylvania countryside for land that was similar in richness to the soil from the black forest of germany. The keim homestead is nationally significant as an exceptionally illustrative and intact example of early german american domestic vernacular architecture.

Johannes keim was the first settler to stake out a claim in the oley valley according to the trust. The two nationally significant buildings on the homestead the main house and the ancillary building both constructed circa 1753 together represent methods of construction. Keim farmstead is on the right hand side of the road.