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c. 1678–84. House. Oldest structure in Fairmount Park; possibly the oldest extant house in Philadelphia. Wall House. Elkins Park. 1682. House. Oldest house in Pennsylvania which has had continuous family residency; possibly the oldest stone house in Pennsylvania. Caleb Pusey House.
The Hess Homestead. Coordinates: 40.1538°N 76.2863°W. The 1740s log farmhouse, with the summer kitchen, log garage, tool shed, and stone spring house. The Hess Homestead, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a historic Mennonite farmstead near the town of Lititz. The property is an ancestral home of the Hess family, [1] who purchased the ...
Horace Trumbauer. Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Neoclassical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer for industrialist Peter A. B. Widener and built between 1897 and 1900. Considered the largest surviving Gilded Age mansion in the Philadelphia area, it housed one of the most important Gilded ...
The Daniel Boone Homestead, the birthplace of American frontiersman Daniel Boone, is a museum and historic house that is administered by the Friends of the Daniel Boone Homestead near Birdsboro in Berks County, Pennsylvania. It is located on nearly 600 acres (2.4 km 2) and is the largest site owned by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum ...
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Eisenhower National Historic Site preserves the home and farm of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, and its surrounding property of 690.5 acres (279.4 ha). It is located in Cumberland Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, just outside Gettysburg. Purchased by then- General Eisenhower and his wife Mamie in 1950, the ...
American historic carpentry. The Golden Plow Tavern in York, PA, is a very unusual American building. It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America. American historic carpentry is the historic ...