French Creek Farm

Along Pughtown Road in West Vincent Township, French Creek Farm is a stone farmstead whose buildings were raised by one builder between 1795 and 1812. George Aman, a stonemason and eldest son of a family from Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, built a springhouse in 1795, a small barn and wagonshed in 1796 and 1797, and a smokehouse in 1799, then the farmhouse in stages in 1803 and 1804, 1808 and 1812. The farmhouse grew from a two-room core into a six-bay facade and then an ell-shaped plan, with fireplaces on the end walls. The complex is regarded as an unusually complete example of this additive farmhouse type in northern Chester County. Its auxiliary buildings, especially the smokehouse with its elongated casement windows, are considered rare survivors of late 18th-century farm outbuildings, and the farm holds a visual unity few local homesteads retain.