Habeck, Christian, Farm

Along Spring Valley Road in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the Christian Habecker Farm is a working farmstead of about 90 acres. Its centerpiece is a two-and-a-half story brick farmhouse dating to 1876, with a five-bay facade, a shed porch and a datestone recording an earlier 1795 house on the site. A frame bank barn rebuilt in 1869 stands across the road, and the complex also includes a brick tenant house, two frame tobacco barns, a summer kitchen, a pigsty, a creamery and a springhouse. The property was farmed by the Habecker family from 1853 onward, and its buildings reflect that long occupancy. Its significance rests on the farmhouse's typical late nineteenth-century Lancaster County form and interior detailing, and on the bank barn's intact design. The farm has kept its agricultural function and much of its historic character amid the suburban growth around it.