Newspaper article, National register & restoration plans, with conceptual drawing

One-page article with conceptual perspective drawing (by Gerald O'Brian) from page 12 of April 1974 (Volume II, No. 7) issue of "American Folklife," newspaper of the American Folklife Society. Article briefly discusses the appointment of the farmstead's two colonial homes [Keim Cabin & Keim House] to the National Register of Historic Places as well as restoration plans for the site and public access to the buildings. At the time this article was written Keim Farmstead was owned by American Folklife Society. Since 1974, considerable research has been done on the Keim farmstead structures by Philip Pendleton [primarily in his book “Oley Valley Heritage, The Colonial Years” and notably in his successful application for the designation of the 1753 Keim House and the “Ancillary” jointly as a National Historic Landmark [See summary in record KHTX13 in this archive]. New information and analysis have determined that the 3-level building formerly called the “Keim cabin” [or, even more speculatively, without documentation, the “Keim settler’s cabin”] was in the early period a multi-function building “ancillary” to the farmstead and the 1753 farmhouse, and housed the wood-turning craft engaged in by several generations of the Keim family. The “Ancillary” is now believed to be contemporary with the 1750s farmhouse rather than from an earlier generation of Keim settlers. Updated August, 2020, Laurence Ward