The John Beale -Joshua Perkins House is a log and stone farmhouse built c. 1660 with later additions in 1906 and 1936. It is the oldest surviving building in Concord Township!
The land (30 acres on the 200-acre Beale Grant) was purchased from the Lenni Lenape in 1652, with the papers signed with the thumbprint of the chief.
Smallbrook is a 2.5-story, 3-bay single-pave log house with Swedish architectural design features. It contains a low ceiling, a corner fireplace, original hardware, glass, flooring and beams, and original enclosed winder stairs. The first map record of this property is from 1743, when the house was owned by Joshua Perkins and referred to as “Hillsborough.”
Extensive restoration work was completed in 1936 by R. Brognard Okie, who was considered the dean of Pennsylvania colonial architecture and later commissioned to restore the Betsy Ross House and William Penn’s Pennsbury mansion.
The house was owned by the Quigley Family from 1704 to the 1930s, then by the Sanborns, and then by the Hall Family in recent years. The Hall Family owned a Christmas tree farm on 17 acres and sold 14 of those acres to Concord Township to preserve open, green space.
This house is a private residence and is not open to the public.
Concord Township Historic Resource #68
