The historic building SGB calls home was completed in 1816 by Pennsylvania’s third and only three term governor, Simon Snyder, for whom our county was named. Construction began before the war of 1812, and was paused during the war. The building remains remarkably intact and is on the National Historic Register.

The Selin’s Grove Brewing Co. is housed on the ground floor in the governor’s original kitchen, complete with a walk-in fireplace, the back room houses another fireplace that was in a detached summer kitchen. The current rear frame addition was built around 1900.

In the late nineteenth century the building was home to Matilda Pierce Alleman who wrote a fairly famous book in civil war circles, about her experience as a girl during the civil war, Gettysburg; What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle.

47 mins from Bald Eagle Retreat

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