Location Audubon, Pennsylvania Architect James Morgan Designated NHL May 5, 1989 Opened 1804 Added to NRHP 16 March 1972 | Built 1804 NRHP Reference # 72001138 Designated PHMC October 09, 1970 Area 53 ha | |
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Similar John James Audubon, Lower Perkiomen Valley Park, Valley Forge National, Pottsgrove Mansion, Scotland Run Park | ||
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Mill Grove is a historic stone house in Audubon, Pennsylvania on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the first home in America of painter John James Audubon for which the community is named. It is maintained as a museum and wildlife sanctuary by Montgomery County.
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Mill Grove was owned for 17 years by Audubon's father, Jean, a French sea captain. In 1803, Captain Audubon sent his youthful son John James to Mill Grove to supervise the estate that included a working lead mine.
The house serves as the educational center of the Pennsylvania chapter of the National Audubon Society, and is known as John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove. The estate comprises 175 acres (71 ha) with more than five miles (8 km) of trails. The house features a museum displaying original Audubon prints, all of his major oil paintings and memorabilia.