10 Lancaster Farming. Saturday. April 18.1970
Hans Herr House R
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Lanoaslei Monnonuo Confoionco
11.>toi ic.il Sooieh the Mans Hen
House amt appi oxnnati 1> one
am* of land Ho also gave an
option to an additional
stnp of land foi SB.OOO b> 1975
On Monda> eu-inng Novembei
10 1969. at the logulai monthly
mooting of the Lancastoi Men
nomto Con foi once Histoneal So
c.otv. the Sooiotv acted to pur
chase the Hans Hen house
The Sonet} iccogm/ed the
place as endowed with a sacied
chaiaclei because of us hisloiy
and associations This action
va-i taken subject to Lancastet
Mennonite Confcience Bishop
Board appioxal which was
p.omptlj 4i\en
On Decembei 29 1969 Samuel
S Wengcn Esqniie upie'ent
mg the His.oucal Societi. con
vened a gioup which foimed an
.Vnisoiv Boaid ot inte.es' ed
people iheieln launching this
pioposecl lestoiation well as a
cmnnum'U piojoct lo
pei sons the house has mhe.' it
\ line in , s lehitionship to the
tomllvstoiv oi Lane isU Conn
t\ To o f hei pei sons i‘ is p'i 7 cd
fci its pa l e Gii manic aichitec
tine ’ Lncl 'o o-na's vno a’e
the di.ett descendants Lving in
p act calh eve l ' cf the
Ulined Sntea .nd pio'.nces of
Canada the house holds spema.
meaning
Di J C Wengei, eminent.
chinch histo'ian and Pies’dent of
the Mennonite Histoiical and Re
seaich Committee, of Goshen,
Indiana, was most pleased to'
learn of the piospect of the
restoiation of this histone old
landmaik On lequest Di
Dairy 4-H Club
The second meeting of the
Ayishne, Jersey and Brown
Swiss 4-H Club was held Mon
day night at the Faim and
Home Centei
Thomas Aaion, piesident,
called the meeting to cider
Delegates weie elected to iep
resent the club at Penn State
They aie Linda Witmei and
Wayne LeFevei Maiy Jane
Eslileman is alternate
Fund laising pioject this
yeai will be selling nomrg
boaid coveis and pads
A film on titling and showing
was shown aft<n the meeting
The next meeting will be at
William Aaion’s home in
Quairyville The date foi this
meeting is May 11, at 730
Any new membeis will be wel
corned
Elizabethtown - Donegal 4-H
by Chiistine Erb
The second meeting of the
Elizabethtown - Donegal 4- H
Club was called to oidei by the
president, Bany Hosslei and
the club pledge was iccited
Roll call was taken and the
club membeis icsponded b.>
telling what pioiects they weie
taking and then piogiess
The meeting was then turn
ed ovei to oui guest speakei,
Bob Holmes, Faim Editor of
the 'lntelligence! Journal ’
who spoke to the gioup on
‘ Newspaneis ”
April Booiy will be oui lep
resenlative ai Penn State loi
Club Congiess in Uine
The no'.t meeting will be
held on May 12 at 800 pm,
baseball will stait at 7 00 pm,
Wenaei began immediately to Hur house. In the painting he vnnla add 6 per cent (18 cents)
nil puc .1 booklet (monogiaph) capluied the virtues of simpli- sales tax. It wil be
on llan>> Heir which would put city and sturdiness so character- from the Lancastei Mennonitc
mto pei inanenl to.m what is istic of the early Mennomtc Conference Histoucal Society,
ahead} known about this settlers The house appears to 2215 Mill Stieam Road, Lancas
pioneei symbolize the best, the true, the ter, Pa. 17602
Andiew Wyeth, reknowned important in Mennomte tradi- The important decision as to
Amei lean aitiil. has had an m- tion. who should be the J« ou.t on
teiesl in 'his old stone house Wyeth specifically did the architect for the old stone house
built by a distant iclative of his painting for use as the basis for built in 1719 was ‘cached al a
mothei. When appicached on a color print in the monograph meeting on Maich 9. 1970
the mattei he and Mrs. Wyeth on Hans Herr written by John K Milner of Media. Pennsyl
who is paiticulaily mteiested in C Wenger All proceeds fiom vama, was chosen
lestoration work agieed to serve the sale of this booklet will go The Media aichitect has the
on the Advisoiy Board toward the Hans Herr House full endorsement of Di. S K
Aftei a snowfall, on the morn- Restoration Fund The selling Stevens executive director of the
mg of Februaiy 11. 1970, Wyeth puce will be $3 postpaid US & Pennsylvania Histoucal and
made a painting of the Hans Canada Residence in Pennsyl- Museum Commission The fo -
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estoration
jp i,;
lowim; U a qiiolallon from Dr.
Strum's Utter of Match 3, 1970
to the Restoration Committee.
" . . The type of careful study
which he could bring to the
pi oblenis connected with the
lesloiation of such a hisloiic
house are leally priceless and
tbcic aie \eiy few architects in
the entile country who have
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The National Trust for His
loucal Pieservation has earmark
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funds to support architectuial
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