439 Brick Rd, Loretto, PA, 15940

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In the early 1900s, Charles Schwab, a rural Pennsylvania boy who became an engineer and steel industry magnate (as president of U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel), asked his New York City architects Dana and Murphy to design a Norman Village; a replica of a farm complex he visited in Europe. The village would be the home for his prize animals, which he showed at the county fair.

When it was completed in 1920, the property consisted of five ivy-covered buildings with stuccoed walls and steeply pitched, slate-covered pointed roofs, and comprised a working farm where pigs, sheep, and horses were raised. The farm buildings enclosed the courtyard on a hillside, with the smoke house, butcher shop, carriage house, and forge on the upper level, and a piggery and sheepfold at the base of the slope. Schwab, who took up golf in 1915, commissioned eminent golf course architect Donald J. Ross (1872–1948) to design a nine hole golf course south of the former farm. Today, Immergrün Golf Course is now owned and maintained by St. Francis University and open to the public. We recommend you get a round in during your stay in Loretto this week!

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