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A popular Hanover bar and restaurant has announced its move to a longtime vacant space in Penn Township. Avalon Ale House, located at 304 Poplar St. in the borough, is moving to the site of the ...
The Main Point was a small coffeehouse venue in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, that operated from 1964 to 1981. The venue hosted concerts by some of the top names in folk and traditional music, blues, rock, country music, and other musical genres, as well as comedy and poetry. The club, located on Lancaster Avenue, was known for its small intimate ...
Harriton House, originally known as Bryn Mawr, is an historic house which is located on the Philadelphia Main Line, and was most famously the residence of Founding Father Charles Thomson, the secretary of the Continental Congress. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
Bryn Mawr is named after an estate near Dolgellau in Wales that belonged to Rowland Ellis, a Welsh Quaker who emigrated in 1686 to Pennsylvania to escape religious persecution. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Until the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad 's Main Line in 1869, the town, located in the old Welsh Tract , was known as Humphreysville, named for ...
La Ronda was a mansion and estate in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania from 1929 to 2009. It was originally the home of Percival E. Foerderer, who ran a leather-manufacturing business, and his wife Ethel Brown.
The Mill Creek Historic District near Bryn Mawr and Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, United States, is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 1980. [1] The area of the historic district was increased on August 30, 1996. [1] [2] [3]
Linda Nochlin (1931–2017), feminist art historian and Bryn Mawr College professor; Martin Nodell (1915–2006), comic book artist and creator of the original Green Lantern; Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827), artist and progenitor of the Peale family of American artists; Edmund R. Purves (1897–1964), architect; William H. Rau (1855–1920 ...
Avalon is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, along the Ohio River 6 miles (10 km) downstream from Pittsburgh. The population was 4,762 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] It is a residential suburb of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area .