The John Speakman House was a Georgian-style stucco over stone farmhouse built c. 1800. Also once on the property were ruins of a springhouse/residence, a large frame barn that was much older than the house, a frame corncrib, and mushroom houses.
The right side of the home indicated earlier construction and contained an unusually large corner cooking fireplace. The springhouse ruins indicated that an earlier house was built over the spring c. 1730s that belonged to the Brinton family.
John Speakman was a farmer by trade. In 1850, he was farming 99 of 129 acres and growing hay, corn, oats, wheat, grass, potatoes, and fruit. The farm was valued at $9,030 in 1850.
The property remained in the Speakman family until the early 1900s when it was purchased by Milton Heyburn. The Masciantonio Family owned the farm in its later years.
The property was once home to an old sawmill and a mushroom farm.
This property was demolished in 2001 to develop an office building at Baltimore Pike and Route 202, but the ice house was saved and moved to the Pierce-Willits House where it can be viewed by the public.
Concord Township Historic Resource #15
