The Reece Pyle House was built c. 1850 after John Miller sold 50 acres to Reece Pyle in 1843. The house is a stucco-over-stone farmhouse, and features two later additions built c. 1940. The house overlooks a spring and faces east.
The springhouse located on the property was built much earlier, c. 1730. The land at that time was owned by Matthias Kerlin, and is associated with his ownership. Just below the springhouse on the opposite side of Featherbed Lane was a cotton factory.
Reece Pyle was a farmer and merchant by trade, and is listed in 1825 as a merchant selling imported, foreign goods by the Upland Union and Delaware County Republican newspapers. Shopkeepers and merchants that sold foreign goods at this time were required to have a special license. Reece Pyle also served as the secretary of the school board in 1836, and served as part of the Concord Board of Common School Directors beginning in 1838.
The house stayed within the Pyle Family until the 1890s, when Brinton J. Heyburn purchased 101 acres including the house. Brinton J. Heyburn served in the American Civil War as a private in the 124th Regiment, Company D. He served alongside many other familiar Concord family names in Harper’s Ferry, WV, and is mentioned in a collection of letters from John Palmer to his family detailing life in the army during the war.
The house sold to David Mahoney in the late 1970s, who was a member of the singing pop quartet, “The Four Aces,” which was inducted int the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2001. Million-selling singles include “Tell Me Why,” “Three Coins in the Fountain,” “It’s No Sin,” and “Stranger in Paradise.”
This house is a private residence, and not open to the public.
Concord Township Historic Resource #69
