Jacob Isett House and Store, also known as Arch Spring Farm, is a historic home and store building located at Arch Spring

Tyrone Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania

Tyrone Township is a township in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Altoona, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,800 at the 2000 census.It was named after County Tyrone in Ireland.-General information:...

, Blair County, Pennsylvania

Blair County, Pennsylvania

-Significant Topographic Features:*Brush Mountain*Logan Valley*Morrison Cove*Tussey Mountain-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 129,144 people, 51,518 households, and 34,877 families residing in the county. The population density was 246 people per square mile . There were 55,061...

. The property includes the Jacob Isett House (1805), store (1799), and summer kitchen; five wood frame outbuildings (c. 1870); and various archaeological remains. The house is a 2 1/2-story, seven bay, limestone

Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....

 dwelling in a vernacular Georgian

Georgian architecture

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 style. Connected to the house is the one-story summer kitchen. The store is a two-story limestone building. The wood frame outbuildings are a wood shed, weigh shed, stable, barn, and implement shed. The archaeological site

Archaeological site

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 includes the remains of an integrated mill village.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1997.