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It's not a matter of "how historic" it is---the author clearly has no grasp on what historic means. It is - by virtue of it's age alone - historic.
As a rule of thumb, anything over 50 years old is considered historic. That being said, not everything that's old is significant.
It's level of significance is what needs to be focused on. The fact that it may be the oldest building in the county is reason enough to place it on the State and National registers.
It's historic function also plays a role in this.
Roseto, PA
Jul 10, 2008
This old house might be historic
A few years ago, there was a bus that would stop every so often in front of Willard Knitter's house in Plainfield Township.
No one would get out; the bus would just sit there, and then move on. The people on the bus were tourists, looking at various historic sites around Northampton County.
But how historic is this house?
The Slate Belt Heritage Center thinks the home may have once been a tavern owned by a man named Adam Dietz, who settled in Plainfield in 1745. If that's the case, it's probably the oldest building in the Slate Belt, and one of the oldest in the county, even older than Easton's Bachmann Publick House, built in 1753.
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