Hutchinson Farm

Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, is the setting for this farm, whose two-story brick farmhouse was built in 1865 and shows vernacular Victorian design with Italianate and Gothic Revival features. The house has a five-bay front, a two-room-deep center hall plan, bracketed cornices and a two-story porch with keyhole-and-lozenge fretwork. Its interior keeps thirteen-foot ceilings, deeply grooved moldings and a hexagonal newel post. Outbuildings include a brick smokehouse with hourglass-shaped ventilators, a springhouse banked into the ground with a stone front probably added around 1900, and a terra cotta block dairy barn of the 1930s. The Hutchinson family owned the land from 1822, when Joseph Hutchinson bought 135 acres. The property is significant as one of the most intact nineteenth-century farms in the county, with a rural setting largely unaffected by suburban development.