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Beel House is a 10,194 square feet (947.1 m 2) Grade II listed 16th-century house on the edge of Little Chalfont. [5] Originally owned by the Duke of Buckingham . It was the home of Mary Penington whose daughter Gulielma Springett married William Penn , founder of Pennsylvania .
Henry Sawyer built the hotel, [4] which was built from 1875-1876, [1] and opened as a boarding house. [5] Anne de Luc owned the hotel until 2008, [6] when she sold it to Robert Mullock. [4] Helen Dickerson, worked at the Chalfonte for 77 years, becoming the director of the hotel's kitchen and with her work ending with her death.
Following a 2006 buyout and extensive renovation, the property reopened in 2008 as the 317-room W Washington D.C. [4] In 2021 the building was sold, ending its franchise with W Hotels and reverting to an independent Hotel Washington.
The Chalfont Historic District is a national historic district located in a portion of the Borough of Chalfont, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses Main Street (Pennsylvania Route 152) and Butler Avenue (U.S. Route 202 Business) with their American colonial and Victorian-style homes. The district includes 121 contributing ...
Milton's friend Thomas Ellwood called the cottage "that pretty box in St. Giles". The ground floor of the cottage is now a museum dedicated to Milton and his works. The four museum rooms contain the most extensive collection in the world on open display of 17th-century first editions of John Milton's works, both poetry and prose.
Jordans Quaker meeting house in 2013. In the 17th century the village became a centre for Quakerism. It has one of the oldest Friends meeting houses in the country, whose cemetery is the burial place of William Penn, founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, Isaac Pennington, as well as other notable Quakers. Close by is Old Jordans, originally ...
The Standard, High Line, formerly The Standard, is an 18-story luxury boutique hotel located at 848 Washington Street between West 13th and Little West 12th Streets in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan, New York City. It stands 57 feet (17 m) above street level, above the High Line, a former elevated railroad track reconstructed into a ...
This structure was razed and in 1847 the four-story Fuller Hotel opened. [1] Renamed the Kirkwood House, it was the residence of Vice President Andrew Johnson; he took the oath of office of the president of the United States there in April 1865 after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. [1] Kirkwood House was razed in 1875.