Knorr-Bare Farm

Set on Route 422 between Wernersville and Sinking Spring, the Knorr-Bare Farm is a working dairy farm whose buildings span the 1750s to the 1940s. The complex includes a brick farmhouse built in 1906 with Queen Anne elements and a three-story tripartite bay, an 1896 frame bank barn with brick stable walls and cupolas, and a stone settler's cabin dating from about 1755. Its outbuildings include a brick smokehouse, a storage arch, and several corn cribs and pig sties. The cabin contains a spring room divided from its living space by a stone wall, a feature the nomination reports was not documented elsewhere in Berks County at the time of the survey. The farm is regarded as one of the most complete farm complexes in the county, built over more than 200 years, and its historic boundaries and fencerows remain largely intact. Its layout and building forms are considered well-preserved examples of Berks County vernacular architecture, and the farm is recognized for its roots in the Pennsylvania German tradition.