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Residence of Edward Brooke, Esquire.
Illustration from The Historical Atlas of Berks County (1876).

- Brooke Manor House, Furnace Street, Birdsboro, Berks County, PA
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Related names:

Brooke, George
Brooke, Edward
Furness, Frank
Souder, Norman M, historian
Marshall, Cornelia Brooke, historian
Souder, Norman M, delineator
Milner, John, delineator
Title
- Brooke Manor House, Furnace Street, Birdsboro, Berks County, PA
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Berks County; Birdsboro
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS PA,6-BIRD,2-1
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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Notes
  • Significance: "Brooke Manor" was the home for over one hundred years of a well-known iron-making family and was typical of manor houses that are now rapidly disappearing. The Brooke family owned Birdsboro, Hibernia, and Hopewell furnaces.
  • Survey number: HABS PA-1075
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1865 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1875 Subsequent Work by Frank Furness
  • Building/structure dates: 1961 Demolished
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa0111.photos.141217p
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Object location40° 15′ 51.98″ N, 75° 48′ 15.98″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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