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Cliveden (/ ˈ k l ɪ v d ən / or KLIV-dən), also known as the Chew House, is a historic site owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, located in the Germantown neighborhood of Northwest Philadelphia. Built as a country house for attorney Benjamin Chew, Cliveden
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To protect his family from the diseases that plagued Philadelphia, [34] Chew chose Mennonite master builder, Jacob Knor, to build a summer retreat in Germantown, which he called Cliveden; the house later came to be known as the Chew house. [35] Knor went on to construct several other buildings in Germantown, including the nearby Johnson House ...
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Cliveden. January 20, 1961 : Northwest Philadelphia 6401 Germantown Ave. ... Edwin Forrest House, first home of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, ...
The properties are distributed across all of Philadelphia's 12 planning districts. East/West Oak Lane, Olney, Upper North and Lower North are included as North Philadelphia. Kensington, Near Northeast and Far Northeast are part of Northeast Philadelphia. Roxborough/Manayunk and Germantown/Chestnut Hill are a part of Northwest Philadelphia.
The Jonathan Graham House, 5356 Chew Avenue, Germantown [42] The King Green House, 5112-14 Germantown Avenue [43] The Leibert House, 6950 Germantown Avenue, ca.1800-08 [44] Little Wakefield, 1701 Lindley Avenue [45] Lower Burial Ground (Hood Cemetery) [46] The Lutheran Theological Seminary Historic District, Mt. Airy [47] The Connie Mack House
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