Christian Schlegel Farm
The Christian Schlegel Farm is a historic farm complex in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1992. The farm began around 1789 with a mix of farming and activities, and it became a dairy farm in the early 1900s.
Notable features include:
- 1½-story stone farmhouse with a rear wing (1789, remodeled about 1850)
- 1½-story stone summer kitchen (1789)
- 1½-story brick schoolhouse (about 1870)
- Frame Pennsylvania bank barn (1887)
- Three wagon sheds, privy, tool shed, milk house, smokehouse
- Two chicken houses, two grape arbors, ground cellar, earthen dam, small frame brooder house
- Family cemetery (contributing site)
- Granite marker marking Christian Schlegel’s acquisition of the farm (August 15, 1738)
The farm is no longer owned by the Schlegel family.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 18:03 (CET).