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The Wissahickon Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. It is named for the Wissahickon gorge in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. In Maryland formations, the term "Wissahickon" is no longer used. Rocks in this classification have since been divided into several units, such as Lower Pelitic Schist and Prettyboy ...
The walls are composed of Wissahickon schist, a less expensive option than brick and a choice that reflected the traditional building materials used in Germantown. The exterior of the house follows a hierarchy of design that includes a range of construction techniques finishes and from high style to vernacular.
Most are primarily red brick in construction, often with white stone trim. Some are faced with stone, being brownstone on some blocks in Center City, South Philadelphia, and North Philadelphia and being Wissahickon schist in Mayfair in Northeast Philadelphia and Mt. Airy in Northwest Philadelphia.
The house is made from cut and squared Wissahickon schist, [2] and is located on Stenton Avenue, which borders Wyndmoor and the Chestnut Hill area of Philadelphia. The original property was owned by Hannah Callowhill Penn. [3] She was the second wife of William Penn, the first colonial proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania. After her ...
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The Old Main building is four-stories high with a stucco and Wissahickon schist stone exterior. It has a two-pitched roof with a central grand pediment and two minor flanking pediments. Atop the grand pediment is a unique "dome" structure and atop both minor pediments are matching cupola.
The small building has one-and-a-half stories and measures 28 feet 3 inches (8.61 m) across the front, and 18 feet 3 inches (5.56 m) along the sides. A brick el in the rear was added after a 1915 restoration. The four-bay front is constructed of Wissahickon schist ashlar, and the sides of stuccoed rubble
Built circa 1886, this historic structure is a three-story, Wissahickon schist, clapboard, and shingle dwelling that was designed in the Queen Anne style. It features decorative quoining, gable, and hipped rooflines, and terra cotta decorative details. A two-story addition was built during the early 1900s.