The Schneider Homestead: Including a Tannery, and Farm. This picture was taken in the early to mid 1870's.

The house is located on Swamp Pike in New Hanover Township, next to the Falkner Swamp Reformed Church (now UCC). It was built in 1791 under Johann Jacob Schneider, around the same time the construction of the present structure of the Falkner Swamp church. Jacob Schneider was a member of the building committee of the Reformed Church, the master builder was John Cunnius. It is possible that Cunnius was commissioned to build the Schneider home. In a 1985 survey conducted by the Bureau for Historic Preservation, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, the building is classified as Georgian architecture. The survey points out that the most interesting features of the house are “found in the brick work; the radius brick water table, raised string courses between stories and the flat brick arches of the 2/2 windows”. The house was altered extensively in the mid-19th Century with the addition of the gable over the front entrance. However, most notably the survey mentions that “In 18th century rural Montgomery County, the traditional vernacular building material was rubble” adding that the house “is an extremely rare example of Flemish bond brick construction in this region.” The Schneider property is listed as being found on the Map of Montgomery County, Wm. E. Morris, Philadelphia, 1854; and Atlas of Montgomery County, G.M. Hopkins & Co. Philadelphia, 1871; as sourced in the aforementioned survey.

- Threatened in the 21st Century -