Thome, James, Farm

Located in North Strabane Township, the Thome Farm is a 190-acre property on Linnwood Road that preserves a grouping of farm buildings spanning nearly 150 years. The centre of the complex is a stone house begun around 1810, with two-bay, two-and-a-half-storey walls of coursed fieldstone reinforced with larger corner stones. An 1870s frame wing in Greek Revival style, with five bays and sidelights around its entrance, was added to the east, and a 1950s wing was built to the west. The farm includes a bank barn with a log substructure, a smokehouse, a silo, a corn crib, a tractor shed, a chicken coop and two ponds. Its significance lies in its illustration of how the county's farms were planned, enlarged and adapted, from subsistence farming through sheep raising to dairy production. Few surviving farms in the township retain both their stone houses and their outbuildings and fields.