Rex House

N. Market St., Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Lebanon.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 11, 1980. NRIS 80003551.

3 contributing buildings. 2 contributing structures.

From Wikipedia:

Rex House

The Rex House, also known as the Gemberling-Rex House, is an historic, American home that is located in Schaefferstown in Heidelberg Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

Built in 1729 by early Pennsylvania German settlers, his structure is a 2+12-story, half timbered residence with originally scored plaster exterior and, currently, a horizontal wooden siding and a gable roof. It measures thirty-two feet by twelve feet and has gable end brick chimneys. Also on the property are a contributing smoke house, bake oven, stone foundation of a barn and outhouse and cistern.

(read more...)

National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998057

LC