Herr, Christian and Emma, Farm

Located on the east side of South View Road, south of the village of Willow Street, this farmstead in Lancaster County centres on a two-and-a-half-storey brick farmhouse built in 1867 by Christian and Emma Herr, according to its datestone. A brick tenant dwelling across the farm lane bears a datestone of 1864 for C. and Susanna Herr. The farm's oldest building is a stone end bank barn dated 1761 by a painted tablet in its gable, making it one of the earliest structures in the area. Other contributing resources include a circa 1890 summer kitchen, a tobacco barn built in 1907, and a frame shed assembled in phases from about 1900 to 1920. The property is significant for its representation of a typical Lancaster agricultural complex that has evolved over more than a century and a half. It has been held by members of the Herr family since the eighteenth century, and it continues to operate as a working farm with tobacco and dairy production.