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Glassworks-Gabler House

historic house in Pennsylvania, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ5567195 ↗
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The Glassworks-Gabler House, also known as Building 302A, is an historic home which is located in Monongahela Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

History and architectural features

Built circa 1810, the Glassworks-Gabler House is a two and-one-half-story, three-bay, vernacular, log dwelling, which sits on a rubblestone foundation. It has a rear kitchen addition that was erected during the twentieth century. The house was possibly built as part of the "New Geneva Glass Works Lot" for Albert Gallatin, an original investor in the New Geneva Glass Works.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 1810—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Glassworks-Gabler, House and historic is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Glassworks-Gabler House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.