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Money set aside for Barnes farm
The Philadelphia Inquirer
August 15, 2001
WEST PIKELAND - Supervisors unanimously voted to contribute $200,000 to the Barnes Foundation
in Merion.
The board said the money would be used for the restoration of Ker-Feal, an 18th-century
farmstead on Bodine Road in Chester Springs where Albert C. Barnes amassed a collection of
antiques and early American art.
Supervisors said Monday that they wanted the township to assist in the foundation's $3 million
fund-raising efforts to restore the 132-acre farmstead, which has been badly neglected since
the death of Barnes' wife, Laura, in 1967. Albert Barnes died in 1951. Supervisor Michael
Craven said Ker-Feal would be open to the public for tours and art classes.
Craven said Ker-Feal was vital to the township's own historic-preservation efforts, which
include historic Yellow Springs and Anselma Mill.
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