File:Bowman's Castle, Front and Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA HABS PA,26-BROVI,1- (sheet 7 of 7).tif

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HABS PA,26-BROVI,1- (sheet 7 of 7) - Bowman's Castle, Front and Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA
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Bowman, Jacob
Brownsville Historical Society
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Null, Druscilla J, historian
Booth, Francis, delineator
Gurland, Gerald, delineator
Volpe, Mario, delineator
Title
HABS PA,26-BROVI,1- (sheet 7 of 7) - Bowman's Castle, Front and Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Fayette County; Brownsville
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 19 x 24 in. (B size)
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,26-BROVI,1- (sheet 7 of 7)
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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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  • Significance: Originally constructed by Jacob Bowman as a trading post & home, Bowman's Castle was both an important commercial enterprise on Pennsylvania's frontier and home to one of the area's most prominent citizens. Architecturally, the house is a good example of evolutionary change over time.
  • Survey number: HABS PA-429
  • Building/structure dates: 1789 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1835- ca. 1840 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: after. 1850- before. 1900 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: after 1963 Subsequent Work
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 75001641.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa0486.sheet.00007a
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Object location40° 01′ 25″ N, 79° 53′ 03.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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