Historical Photos Location Revealed

Last week's included five pictures, depicting a house and adjacent barn photographed in 1956.

The buildings pictured are located behind at 370 Lancaster Avenue, behind the building. The house is mostly gone and is certainly uninhabitable, but the barn still stands. The barn is known as The Importer and can be viewed from the Lancaster Avenue. (The original post said the house is no longer standing, but was amended to say it lies in ruins—apologies for any confusion that caused.)

There was only one correct guess, and it came from , who figured it out before the post was amended:

Caption says it's no longer standing, a tough one! Wild guess, the house in ruins today on Rte 30 behind the barn that used to be the Importer? The house looks bigger than the ruins though so this guess is a real longshot.

The East Whiteland Historical Commission, who provided the photo, sent along a historical narrative (attached to this article) about the "fine old home." Owned by Francis Lathrop, it was built in 1714 on a 20,000-acre farm. It was originally called "Frazier Nurseries" and had massive stone walls—one of them five feet thick. One room had "walls covered on three sides with old maps of the world."

The entire narrative, which is attached to this article as a PDF, is worth a read. It ends thusly:

It is said that a Susan Sharpless once lived here and she told of serving meals to the man who built the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Thanks to everyone who wagered a guess!