Farmers' High School

  • Also Known As: Pennsylvania State College also Pennsylvania State University

  • Address: College Ave and Atherton St
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Historic District


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1855/02/22 George Boal Founder By act PL 46, No 50, The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania charters Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania.
1938/00/00 Henry Varnum Poor (Designer) Artist During the 1930s, Henry Poor creates a series of murals for the Department of Interior Building in DC, the Louisville Courier-Journal building in Kentucky and the Old Main Building at Penn State.
1976/00/00

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Particulars for Farmers' High School:
Area of Significance Agriculture
Architectural Style American Colonial Revival
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Art
Higher Learning College
Area of Significance Community Planning and Development
Area of Significance Education
Historic Use Educational related housing
Architectural Style Georgian Revival
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Landscape Architecture
Architectural Style Neoclassical
Area of Significance Social History
Owner State



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 81000538
Resource Type:
Owner: State
Architect: Multiple
Architectural Style: Classical revival, Colonial revival, Other
Attribute: Georgian Revival
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Community Planning and Development, Landscape architecture, Art, Education, Architecture, Agriculture, Social history
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Significance of less than fifty years
Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1950-1974, 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1975-2000, 1825-1849, 1925-1949
Significant Year: 1855, 1976
Historic Function: Education
Historic Sub-Function: College, Educational related housing
Current Function: Education
Current Sub-Function: College Educational related housing

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