Happy Spring from the Friends of the 1803 House!
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"Sips & Strings" May 19, 2019 from 2pm to 5pm at the 1803 House!
Order your tickets now for an enjoyable afternoon with wine, music and food...
click here for details; to order tickets go to https://sipsstrings1803house.eventbrite.com
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Why NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Jr. was in Emmaus?
click here for Morning Call article; or click here for the "Ramblings from the Bench"
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2018 Annual Appeal to Restore Windows
click here for letter from President; click here for donation form
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About the 1803 House
In 1803 Jacob Ehrenhardt, Jr. built this stone, Federal-style home for his wife Susanna
and their four daughters,
Barbara,
Anna Marie, Anna Eleonora and Suzanna.
It was located near the Moravian Church,
surrounded by
crop fields,
the South
Mountain and a stream nearby
on a plot of land
owned by his father, Jacob Ehrenhardt Sr.
Step inside and go back in time
to
the early 1800's
after the Moravians had settled in Emmaus.
The house
preserves the architecture of the Moravian culture
of
Colonial Pennsylvania
and illustrates the lifestyle of
Colonial America.
This beautiful renovated "time capsule" is a vital link
to
our heritage
and one of the oldest
structures in Emmaus.
The 1803 House is located at
55 South Keystone Avenue in
Emmaus,
PA
is managed
by The Friends of the 1803 House
and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
More history; A Photo Tour; How to help; Become a Member
What's Happening at the 1803 House?
Click here for articles
Archaeology Resumes with Lehigh University. [right]
Archaeology Professor David Small of Lehigh University has been working with
teams of students
and with
important
volunteers
from Emmaus on excavations at the 1803 House.
Lehigh’s enterprise was not the first
however,
and due
recognition
must be given to Ryan
Loughren
who was a teacher at the local Seven
Generations Charter School.
Ryan took
several
students to dig
south
of the kitchen and exposed
important walls to a building which we are today exploring.
For
the
past two years
Lehigh students
and
Emmaus volunteers
have been working
to understand
the buried walls behind
the
kitchen. They
have
currently
excavated a small
section of what was a larger building.
What this
building was is
still
undetermined.
The
best
estimate to date is
that it was
a log cabin
which was used by the
builders
of the 1803 House,
before
the house was built.
Click here to see progress;
Restoration of Front Door and Kitchen Door [right];
New Buck Fence [right] Click here for pictures or Here for Morning Call Article;
New Trundle Bed
[right]
2019 Events at the 1803 House:
"Sips & Strings" at the 1803 House...Sunday May 19, 2019 from 2pm to 5pm:
Enjoyable afternoon with wine, food and music. Details to follow very soon....
Emmaus Heritage Alliance Education Project:
For the third year, The 1803 House,
the
Shelter
House,
God's Acre and the Knauss Homestead will be hosting a Pilot Program with the East
Penn
School District.
Third
graders from
four elementary schools will explore and learn about their
community,
the history of Emmaus
and how children
lived during the
time
periods of each site.
click here for 2018 article
Emmaus Heritage Festival, Saturday, September 21, 2019 from 11am to 3pm:
Live music, crafts, food truck, displays, games and so much more.at the Emmaus Historical Society 2018 Main Street, Emmaus.
"Pies and Pints" at the 1803 House...September 22, 2019 from 2 to 5:
In 2018 we celebrated the
215 birthday
of the 1803 House. The celebration included all the pizza and
salad
from Switchback Pizza
and Funk's beer in a commentative
1803 House pilsner
glass. Your donation will
help
the
Friends of the 1803 House rebuild
the
colonial window that are in need of repair.
Click here for East Penn Press Article; Click here for Photo Gallery
"Old Fashioned Christmas at the 1803 House"...December 7, 2019 from noon - 4pm:
This
event
is
always
the 1st Saturday of December at the 1803 House. In 2018 visitors enjoyed the fire in open
hearth baking
gingerbread and beef stew, warm
cider, holiday treats,
Christmas tree with colonial decorations,
window sill decorated by members
of the
Emmaus Garden Club,
scale Emmaus building models by Andre Fatula, ornament
crafting for the
children, "1803 House Church Baby" sale, annual homemade
wreath sale
and holiday
tours of the 1803 House. Click here for Photo Gallery.
This 'n' That:
For the Christmas Holidays colonialists decorated their homes with fruit. In the pictures below, first what is the
green
round fruit that
surrounds Christmas Tree and second did they use fruit for other decorations? Click Here to get the Answer 
