George Grey Barnard, Cloisters, Washington Heights | His Family, His Travels, His Sculpture

George Grey Barnard, son of Joseph Hoke Barnard and Martha Grubb, was born in this house located in the small Pennsylvania town of Bellefonte. Bellefonte is a town of 6,400 nestled in the mountains three miles south of Interstate 80, about midway across the state. This farmhouse structure built at 113 East Linn Street [map] is now the Barnard House Bed & Breakfast.

The Rev. J. H. Barnard married Miss Martha Grubb, daughter of George G. and Juliette, on June 6th, 1861 in Bellefonte. Together they would have four children, two sons and two daughters.

Also located in the town is the George Grey Barnard Sculpture Garden, which was formerly a gas station. The site was donated as part of Talleyrand Park by the Gulf Oil Corporation in 1978, and in 1983, the Talleyrand Park Citizens Committee installed a bust of Lincoln, cast from the original plaster head sculpted in 1917. In 1985 and 1986, the committee directed a Pennsylvania Conservation Corps and Borough of Bellefonte grant, continuing landscaping and constructing the foot bridges.