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48—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 2, 1977
Heritage Trail Home Tour to visit
A touch of Williamsburg
can be found
in Lancaster Co.
By JOANNE SPAHR
Editor’s note: For the
third year, the Lancaster
County F armors ’
Association (associated with
the Pennsylvania Fanners’
Association) Women’s
Committee will sponsor their
Heritage Trail Home Tour on
April 20. Guests will tour five
homes in the Manheim area
which contain a legacy of
Americana, farming
and beauty. The following
article deals with-one of the
homes to be visited. The
other four homes will be
featured in the upcoming
weeks prior to Laches Day
Out.
EAST PETERSBURG,
Pa. - At right angles to and
hugging the porch of the
oversized but gracious red
brick farm house stands the
diminutive colonial
dwelling. It’s as though a
tornado stole the little green
building right out of
Williamsburg, Va., and
planted it-near the protective
porch wings of the maternal
farm house in Lancaster
County for security. And,
liking its surroundings, the
house stayed and flourished
where it landed.
The actual history, of
course, is not nearly as
romantic as this fictionalized
version, but it may be
equally as interesting.
The colonial house in
question belongs to Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Landis, Manheim
R 7, dairy farmers, who
recently restored it to its
original state.
Built in the late 1700’s, the
home constructed for the
purpose of housing retiring
farm couples when “the
younger generation” took
over the family business.
The last person to live in the
home was Maria
(pronounced Mar - eye’ -a)
Bassler. She and her
husband Jacob farmed the
land until he died, and their
. son, Young Jacob, took over
the business. When this
happened, Maria retired to
the “old house” as it was
always called, and lived
there until she passed away
in 1878.
From that' time- on, the
house was not lived in by
humans except for a short
span in the 1900’s when the
big brick house was being
remodeled.
However, just because
humans did not live in it does
not mean that it was totally
uninhabited for all those
years. On the contrary, as
the cenuiry of its dormancy
slowly ticked away, many a
brood of peeps and rabbits
were reared in what is now
the upstairs bedrooms.
And, during the T.B.
testing period in 1938 to 1940,
the dairy cows were tied in it
when the testing was taking
place on the farm.
Also, through the years it
has served as a playhouse,
wood shop, storage room,
and garage for the different
owners using it.
Then, in 1975 Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Landis bought the farm
from his father and some
changes began to take place.
“When we were
sandblasting our home (the
adjacent red brick structure,
the sandblaster said that he
would like to do the outside of
the little house sometime,
“Mrs. Landis explains.
Then, with a modest grin and
a chuckle she adds, “At first
I thought it was a joke, then
Earl and I started thinking
seriously about it, and we
decided to do it.”
Before the sandblaster
ever came to do the outside
of the stone dwelling, the
Landis’s had committed
themselves in their minds to
redo the entire building
inside and out, a process that
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