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Chestnut Hill Historic District (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

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Architect
  
Multiple

Area
  
7.77 km²

NRHP Reference #
  
85001334

Added to NRHP
  
20 June 1985

Chestnut Hill Historic District (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Fairmount Park and Montgomery Co. Line, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Architectural style
  
Mid 19th Century Revival, Early Republic, Late Victorian

The Chestnut Hill Historic District is a historic area covering all the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in 1985.

Contributing properties

The historic district comprises 1,987 contributing properties over 1,920 acres, including:

  • The Anglecot (designed by Wilson Eyre)
  • Druim Moir Historic District, includes Romanesque Revival mansion (1883–86), designed by G. W. & W. D. Hewitt
  • Graver's Lane Station (1883), designed by Frank Furness
  • John Story Jenks School (1922), designed by Irwin T. Catharine
  • Thomas Mill Covered Bridge (across the Wissahickon Creek, the only traditional covered bridge in Philadelphia)
  • Wissahickon Inn (now Chestnut Hill Academy) (1883–84), designed by G. W. & W. D. Hewitt
  • Inglewood Cottage (1850), designed by Thomas Ustick Walter
  • The former site of Boxly, the estate of Frederick Winslow Taylor, where Taylor often received the business-management pilgrims who came to meet the "Father of Scientific Management"
  • Esherick House (1961), designed by Louis Kahn
  • Vanna Venturi House (1962–64), designed by Robert Venturi

    • References

    Chestnut Hill Historic District (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Wikipedia
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