Historic house · West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County
Hans Herr House
Built by Mennonite settlers in 1719 and thought to be the oldest building in Lancaster County, a stout stone farmhouse with exhibits on early Mennonite life and a re-created Native longhouse.
What you will find
- Historic features
- Museum or exhibits
Make a day of it
Nearby
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Dutch Wonderland
Entered through a storybook castle, an amusement park built for young children, with gentle rides, a family-sized wooden coaster and splash areas for hot days.
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Strasburg
A small town amid Amish farmland that is a magnet for train lovers, with a steam heritage railroad, the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and a toy train museum on its doorstep.
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Amish Farm and House
A Lancaster County farm presented as an Amish homestead, with guided tours of an 1805 farmhouse, a one-room schoolhouse, barnyard animals, and bus tours of the surrounding countryside.
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Demuth Museum
The home and studio of early modernist painter Charles Demuth, where changing shows of his watercolors and paintings hang steps from the garden that inspired his flower pictures.
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Lancaster Museum of Art
Changing exhibitions of regional and contemporary art in an 1840s Greek Revival mansion in downtown Lancaster.
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North Museum of Nature and Science
A family-sized natural history and science museum with fossils, live animals and a planetarium, a short walk from Franklin & Marshall College.
