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Adjoining the Borough Park along Spang Street stands a row of large Victorian-era homes built in 1889 for D. M. Bare and members of his family.

These are substantial yet loosely eclectic variations on the Queen Anne and Gothic Revival styles as rendered by builders from the Roaring Spring Planing Mill.

Perhaps the most impressive is the Edwin G. Bobb House built closest to the park by a son-in-law of D. M. Bare.

The rear yard of the house is the approximate former site of the George B. Spang House ( ca.

1821 ), the home of the miller from whom D. M. Bare purchased the Mill Seat Tract in 1863.

Spang had operated the gristmill in the settlement, which was known as Spang's Mill, since 1821.

His homestead now stands at 724 Church Street, about one block away, where it was moved in 1889 by Bare prior to construction of the Bobb House.

The Spang House is a typical five-bay, double-pile Georgian type dwelling, the core of which is log.