Rita McGrady, her son, and neighbors have built three of the most distinctive pieces of vernacular architecture in Butler County. Using stones from old barns, and the mechanical aid of only a tractor and a forklift, she designed and they built her home, a round barn, and a smaller house. Inspired by the numerous farms she visited with her father as a
Lu Donnelly et al., "McGrady Farm", [Fenelton, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-BU19.
Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 180-181.
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