Dryhouse
A dryhouse is a small structure fitted with interior racks, shelves, or drawers and a small stove. Thinly sliced fruits and vegetables were placed on the racks and slowly dried with low heat from the stove. The dryhouse would be sited near the farmhouse. This is a rare outbuilding. It is mainly associated with Pennsylvania German culture. Replicas can be found at Landis Valley Museum and at the Alexander Schaeffer homestead in Schaefferstown, Lebanon County.
Dryhouse, Lebanon County, replica, c. 2000.
Dryhouse showing drawers, Warrenton Township, York County, c. 1850.
(Site 133-WA-001)
Note
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Pages in this Section
- Overview
- House Types
- Barn Types
- Barn Features
- Outbuilding Types
- Overview
- Bake Oven
- Butcher House
- Carriage House
- Cider House
- Combination Structure
- Cook House
- Corn Crib
- Dryhouse
- Fruit Cold Storage
- Garage
- Grain Bin
- Granary
- Greenhouse
- Hay Drying Shed
- Hog House
- Horse Barn
- Ice House
- Machine Shed
- Maple Sugar House
- Milk House
- Packing House
- Potato Storage Cellar
- Poultry Housing
- Privy
- Roadside Stand
- Root Cellar
- Scale House
- Shed
- Silo
- Smokehouse
- Spray Shed
- Springhouse
- Summer Kitchen
- Wagon Shed
- Wash House
- Wood Shed
- Worker Housing
- Workshop
- Landscape Elements
- Archaeological Features