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Joseph and Esther Phillips Plantation

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NRHP Reference #
  
90001414

Year built
  
1813

Area
  
3 ha

Added to NRHP
  
5 September 1990

Joseph and Esther Phillips Plantation

Location
  
Bailey's Crossroads, south of Glen Run Road and south of Atglen, West Fallowfield Township, Pennsylvania

Architectural style
  
Gothic Revival, Georgian

Joseph and Esther Phillips Plantation, also known as The Old Ritter Farm, is a historic home and farm located in West Fallowfield Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The plantation was established in 1813. The house was built in 1813, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, stuccoed limestone structure. It is built in the Georgian "I"-plan. It features a Gothic Revival style porch added in the 1850s. Other contributing buildings are two stone and frame bank barns, a stone octagonal smokehouse, a frame carriage house and workshop, and a two-story, stone spring house.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

References

Joseph and Esther Phillips Plantation Wikipedia