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Brunner Farmhouse in 2006

Brunner Farmhouse, c. 1850

575 Beatty Road

This 2-story, 3 x 2 bay frame farmhouse with shuttered windows has a stone foundation, a one-bay porch, and gabled roof.  It was built by the Brunner family.  Reportedly, the community’s post office was once located on the land at that time the Clugston farm. The Clugstons, one of the pioneering families of the area, owned the tract of land through much of the 19^th century, and probably built this farmhouse around 1850. Today the Brunner house sits near the present campus of the Community College of Allegheny County.