Hannastown Farm

Brick farm complex on Forbes Road in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, built between 1866 and 1868 by William Steel and his wife Sarah Jane Steel. The main house is a two-and-a-half-story vernacular farmhouse with Italianate detailing, laid in three-wythe brick on a sandstone foundation, with a slate roof and a copper lantern. Its interior retains walnut stair elements, marble mantels and original pine second-floor floors. The complex includes a red brick kitchen house, a springhouse and a 100-by-50-foot bank barn with a timber queen post roof framed in chamfered oak. Steel was credited with introducing pure-bred Durham Shorthorn cattle to the county, and the farm sustained a large herd of them at its peak in the late nineteenth century. The property is significant for its agricultural history and for its architecture, which the nomination describes as unusually intact for a farm of this period, with its fields and buildings largely unchanged.