Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 72001157 Added to NRHP 16 March 1972 | Built 1760
1838 Opened 1760 | |
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Location Fairmount Park, 33rd Street near Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Address N 33rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19130, USA Architectural style Colonial Revival architecture Similar Sesame Place, Conneaut Lake Park, Lakemont Park, Camelbeach Waterpark, Idlewild and Soak Zone | ||
The Hatfield House is a historic house in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
History
It was built as a suburban villa in 1760, in what is now the Nicetown neighborhood of the city. It operated as Catherine Mallon's Boarding School for Girls from 1806 to 1824. William J. Hay was the next owner, and made major Greek Revival-style alterations – including the addition of the unusual 5-column temple portico – in 1838. Dr. Nathan L. Hatfield, of the University of Pennsylvania, bought it in 1854; his family owned it for 75 years.
The house appears on the 1843 Ellet Map of Philadelphia County, on the south side of Nicetown Road (Hunting Park Avenue), east of the Philadelphia and Germantown Rail Road and west of the Germantown and Perkiomen Turnpike (Germantown Avenue). By the 1855 Barnes Map, the city's street grid has been sketched in, although few of the streets yet existed. By 1862, a horse-drawn streetcar line passed a block east of the house.
Simon Gratz High School was built directly east of the house in 1925. Major Henry Reed Hatfield donated the house to Fairmount Park Commission in 1929. In 1930, the building was dismantled and moved one story at a time to its present site, 33rd Street and Girard Avenue. Architect Erling H. Pedersen, of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, managed the relocation.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972. It is currently leased as office space by the Father's Day Fund.