Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 72001156 | Built c. 1744 Added to NRHP 19 June 1972 | |
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Location 5269 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Similar Grumblethorpe, Citizens Bank Park, Tower Theater, Liacouras Center, Mütter Museum | ||
Grumblethorpe Tenant House, also known as the Tenant House of Wister's Big House, is a historic home located in the Wister neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1744, and expanded in the early 19th-century. It is a 2 1/2-story, stone dwelling, 31 feet square. The original house was one-story, 19 feet wide by 28 feet deep. It was originally built as a dependency to John Wister's summer home, Grumblethorpe.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is a contributing property of the Colonial Germantown Historic District, which has been designated a National Historic Landmark.
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