{"nrhp_refnum":"89001820","name":"Dreibelbis, Joel, Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"PA 143","address_restricted":false,"city":"Virginville","county":"Berks County","state":"PA","lat":40.517728501500045,"lon":-75.87596730727326,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-10-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic farmstead and agricultural district in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, adjoining the village of Virginville, with a farmhouse begun in 1868 and outbuildings built mostly between 1868 and 1930.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is an intact example of a Pennsylvania German family farm that changed little from the late 19th century, with buildings that were largely built under one man's direction. It states the buildings show a unified design guided by function and that the farm's landscape, fence rows, lanes and furnishings survive largely unaltered. It also presents the property as an example of long-term family conservation practices.","narrative":"Near Virginville in Richmond Township, the Joel Dreibelbis Farm is a farmstead of 181 acres bordered by Maiden Creek. Its 2-1/2 story brick farmhouse was completed in 1868 by Joel Dreibelbis, who took over the family farm in 1857 and rebuilt the farmstead. The house keeps its original center hall, Victorian wallpaper, painted woodwork and furnishings. The complex includes a brick summer kitchen, a stone and frame smokehouse, a stone ice house, a large frame bank barn of 1908, a corn crib and wagon shed, and a brick chicken house. Buildings were arranged for convenient daily work, and the farm's fields, fence rows and lanes have changed little. The nomination regards the property as a well-preserved example of a self-sufficient late 19th-century Pennsylvania German family farm, and as a representative example of the farms drawn by Ferdinand Brader in Berks County in the 1880s.","period_of_significance":"1868-1939","architect_builder":"Joel Dreibelbis (builder of the contributing buildings, except the three built c.1930 by his son George)","architectural_style":"Vernacular with Federal style elements","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Farm remains in agricultural use; about 130 of 181 acres are cultivated and the original buildings are retained.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:35.807732-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/89001820.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001820/1bd6fda5f3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001820/1bd6fda5f3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joel_Dreibelbis_Farm_Farmhouse_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Shuvaev</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joel_Dreibelbis_Farm_Farmhouse_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998489","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Dreibelbis_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6213389"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/berks-county/dreibelbis-joel-farm-89001820/"}