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It was built in 1747 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The house's connection to monastic life is uncertain or simply legendary, but German mystic and hermit Johannes Kelpius lived nearby in the Wissahickon Valley from 1694 until his death in 1708, and connections with monks from Ephrata have been reported. [2]
The district, off Lincoln Drive near Wissahickon Avenue in Fairmount Park, includes six of up to forty-five original buildings. RittenhouseTown was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated a National Historic Landmark District on April 27, 1992.
Langhorne Hotel: Langhorne: c. 1700: Tavern Built by William Huddleston; originally known as the Tavern at Attleboro, [5] until the village was renamed for Jeremiah Langhorne in 1876 [6] Brinton 1704 House: West Chester: 1704 House One of the oldest houses in Pennsylvania Rittenhouse Homestead: Philadelphia, Wissahickon Valley Park: 1707 House
The village of Wissahickon was founded by officials of the Pencoyd Iron Works in the late nineteenth century. [1] Beginning in the 1880s, growing numbers of mill owners and wealthy business owners from neighboring Manayunk sought elegant homes on ample lots; they set their eyes on land previously owned by prominent Philadelphia families – including the Camac, Dobson, Salaignac, and Wetherill ...
The Hewitt brothers did the planning for the upper-class suburb and designed the principal buildings, including a resort hotel, the Wissahickon Inn (1883–84) (now Springside Chestnut Hill Academy); the first clubhouse for the Philadelphia Cricket Club (1883–84, burned 1909); Houston's own mansion, Druim Moir (1886); and St. Martin-in-the ...
Red Hill Historic District: October 31, 1985 : 148, 152, and 200-600 Main Street, 98-226 and 21-231 West Sixth Street, and 532-550 Adams Street: Red Hill: 119: Andreas Rieth Homestead: Andreas Rieth Homestead: September 19, 1973
Wissahickon (house), a historic apartment building in Philadelphia; Wissahickon School District, in Montgomery County; Wissahickon (SEPTA station), a passenger rail station in Northwest Philadelphia; Wissahickon Skating Club, a non-profit skating club in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia; Wissahickon Valley Park, in Fairmount Park ...
Cave of Kelpius located near Wissahickon Creek. The so-called Cave of Kelpius is located by a small tributary stream of the Wissahickon in Philadelphia's present-day 1,372-acre (5.55 km 2) Wissahickon Valley Park. [4]