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Notable buildings include the Chads Ford Inn (1807-1810), Merchant Mill (1864), a row of houses built between 1840 and 1850, the bridge across Brandywine Creek, and the Christian C. Sanderson Museum. Located in the district are the separately listed Chad House and N. C. Wyeth House and Studio. [2]
The house was built after 1712 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 11, 1971. John Chad's widow, Elizabeth, stayed in the house while it was in the line of fire during the Battle of Brandywine. [3] The city of Chadds Ford relied on the spring ford on the property, and thus the city was named after John Chads. [4]
Rock Hill Road south of Chadds Ford, Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania Coordinates 39°50′40″N 75°35′24″W / 39.84444°N 75.59000°W / 39.84444; -75
Painter's Folly was built by a wealthy local farmer named Samuel Painter in 1856, soon after he returned from travels in Europe. The house's ornate Italianate design inspired neighbors to brand it "Painter's Folly." [2] The three-story house spans 58,000 square feet and sits on a four-acre property adjoining the Brandywine Battlefield. [3]
The N. C. Wyeth House and Studio is a historic house museum and artist's studio on Murphy Road in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, United States. [3] Beginning with its construction in 1911, it served as the principal home and studio of artist N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945). It was restored to its original appearance around the time of his death.
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Northwest of Chadds Ford at 1325 Creek Road: Birmingham Township: 11: George Brinton House: George Brinton House: October 25, 1990 : Pennsylvania Route 100, 1 mile north of its junction with U.S. Route 1, near Chadds Ford
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017, its nomination asserted that the district "exhibits a cohesive collection of distinctive architectural resources and landscape features that identify it as an important enclave in the Lower Brandywine Creek Valley of the two types of country estates that were being created within the time frame of the American Country Estate Movement."