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Brush Hill

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c. 1798. 651 Brush Hill Dr., 0.5 miles west of Jeannette

Colonel John Irwin erected Brush Hill along the historic Forbes Road after Native Americans burned his log house and lightning struck and destroyed his subsequent frame house. This stone house differs from the square vernacular stone houses erected by many settlers, as it is a large (35 × 54 feet), rectangular, Georgian-influenced two-story house with a central passage plan. Brush Hill was the center of a 700-acre working plantation, which included a gristmill along nearby Brush Creek. The borough of Irwin encroached on the Brush Hill property in the twentieth century, and the house is now surrounded on all sides by twentieth-century tract houses.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lu Donnelly et al.
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What's Nearby

Brush Creek Salem United Church of Christ (Brush Creek Salem Church)
Jeannette Glass Company and McKee Glass Company Housing
United States Post Office
Harrold Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
Coulter Family Houses

Citation

Lu Donnelly et al., "Brush Hill", [Irwin, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-WE17.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 1

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 219-220.

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