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Forester's Hall, also known as Forest Hall, is a historic commercial building located at Milford,
Pike County, Pennsylvania Pike County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,535. Its county seat is Milford. Pike County is included in the New York- Newark-Jersey City, ...
. The original section was built in 1886, and expanded in 1904. It is a large three-story, eight-bay wide building constructed of
bluestone Bluestone is a cultural or commercial name for a number of dimension or building stone varieties, including: * basalt in Victoria, Australia, and in New Zealand * dolerites in Tasmania, Australia; and in Britain (including Stonehenge) * fe ...
. It features a steep pointed roof, small towers, gables, dormers, and three bluestone chimneys in a Châteauesque style. The 1904 addition was built to house classrooms and
auditorium An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances. For movie theatres, the number of auditoria (or auditoriums) is expressed as the number of screens. Auditoria can be found in entertainment venues, community ...
s for the summer forestry Masters program operated by the
Yale School of Forestry Yale School of the Environment (YSE) is a professional school of Yale University. It was founded to train foresters, and now trains environmental leaders through four 2-year degree programs ( Master of Environmental Management, Master of Environ ...
at nearby Grey Towers. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 1983. It is located within the Milford Historic District.


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