Warwick Furnace Farm Landscape

Glenmoore, PA, 19343 US / PA

Location Description

Warwick Furnace Farm is a family-owned and operated lavender farm in rural Pennsylvania. The farm is 61 acres located in the heart of the French Creek valley in Chester County, sited next to the historic Warwick Furnace; one of the oldest, and in its day largest, iron and steel furnaces in America. The furnace furnished armaments for George Washington’s Revolutionary War army, produced the Franklin stove and manufactured the components for the first metal-clad ship during the Civil War. The farm comprises more than a dozen stone buildings and barns, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, some dating back to pre-revolution America. The stone manor house on the property dates back to 1738, the interior was last renovated in 1910 by well-known architect, R. Brognard Okie, in a colonial revival style. All of the neo-Colonial details from the Okie renovations remain intact. Other buildings include a small two story log cabin, spring house, ice house, root cellar, stone potting shed, cottage overlooking a pond, stone dog kennel, two additional small stone houses and three large barns with horse stalls, an unusual apartment and artist studio, woodworking workshop and large open interior spaces. One of the 19th Century stone bank barns, among the largest barns in eastern Pennsylvania, was formerly a dairy barn, has a footprint of ¼ of an acre and rises three stories with two silos. In addition, there is a formal garden with water feature, natural spring fed pond, abandoned grass tennis court, sloped lavender fields, greenhouse, 11 acres of woodlands, ravine, lilac allee and an expansive unsoiled viewshed, uninterrupted by buildings, as the farm is surrounded by more than 500 acres of preserved land in a valley with the pristine French Creek flowing through it.

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Architecture Style

1800s / Civil War
1800s / Civil War
1920s - 1930s
Colonial

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