Chestnut Hill Historic District (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Chestnut Hill Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Houston-Sauveur House (1885), 8205 Seminole Avenue.
Location:	Roughly bounded by Fairmount Park and Montgomery Co. Line, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:	40°4′18″N 75°12′47″W / 40.07167°N 75.21306°W / 40.07167; -75.21306Coordinates: 40°4′18″N 75°12′47″W / 40.07167°N 75.21306°W / 40.07167; -75.21306
Area:	1,920 acres (780 ha)
Architect:	Multiple
Architectural style:	Mid 19th Century Revival, Early Republic, Late Victorian
Governing body:	Local
NRHP Reference#:	85001334[1]
Added to NRHP:	June 20, 1985

The Chestnut Hill Historic District is a historic area in 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.

See also

• Awbury Historic District
• Colonial Germantown Historic District
• RittenhouseTown Historic District
• Tulpehocken Station Historic District

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References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 

External links

• Chestnut Hill Historical Society
• National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form