Fordhook Farm, also known as Burpee Farm, is an historic farm and national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

located at Doylestown Township,

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. It encompasses 12 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures. They include the houses, barn,

spring house A spring house, or springhouse, is a small building, usually of a single room, constructed over a spring. While the original purpose of a springhouse was to keep the spring water clean by excluding fallen leaves, animals, etc., the enclosing str ...

, ice house,

carriage house A ''carriage house'', also called a ''remise'' or ''coach house'', is a term used in North America to describe an outbuilding that was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and their related tack. Carriage houses were often two ...

, "farm house," "cottage" and seed house, and two

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s. The main house is constructed of

fieldstone Fieldstone is a naturally occurring type of stone, which lies at or near the surface of the Earth. Fieldstone is a nuisance for farmers seeking to expand their land under cultivation, but at some point it began to be used as a construction mate ...

, and the oldest section pre-dates 1798. Washington Atlee Burpee (1858-1915) purchased the farm in 1888. The farm was used for experimentation and seed production by

Burpee Seeds Burpee may refer to: *Burpee (exercise), a full body exercise * Burpee Seeds, a seed company * Hanksville-Burpee Quarry, a paleontological excavation site near Hanksville, Utah * Burpee Museum of Natural History * Burpee and Mills, Ontario, a tow ...

until 1981. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the

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in 1987.

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Burpee Farm
{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Historic districts in Bucks County, Pennsylvania Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Bucks County, Pennsylvania