Stupp-Oxenrider Farm

Along Dundore Road in North Heidelberg Township, Berks County, the Stupp-Oxenrider Farm is a group of log, frame and stone buildings set in rolling hill and valley country beside a creek. The main house is a two-and-one-half story log Swiss bank house, dated to about 1784, with a Germanic three-room plan, a central fireplace and a Federal-style corner cupboard in the stube. Beside it stand a log tenant house from about 1790, a frame bank barn from about 1850 and a group of outbuildings built between about 1845 and 1940, including a smokehouse, a blacksmith shop and a spring house. The property is listed for its agricultural history and its architecture. It represents late 18th and 19th century family farms that turned to dairying in the early twentieth century, and its buildings retain original features. The farm has been worked by the same family line since 1900, and it is regarded as an intact example of a continuously operated farm.