Thomas Massey House

Thomas Massey House

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location= Broomall, Pennsylvania
locmapin = Pennsylvania
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built =1696
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added = November 16, 1970
governing_body = Local
refnum=70000904cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] The Thomas Massey House is a brick colonial house, located on Lawrence Road near West Chester Pike in Broomall, Pennsylvania. It was created by Thomas Massey, a Quaker, in 1708, on land he had purchased in 1696. The house was remodeled in the 1730s by Mordecai Massey, Thomas' son. It was donated to Marple Township in 1964 to avoid destruction. The Thomas Massey House is one of the oldest English Quaker homes in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is on the National Register of Historical Places, and the Historical American Building Survey.

The 1696 brick portion was built by Thomas Massey as an addition to the existing log or frame house. In 1731 his son, Mordecai, replaced the log or frame house with a stone section. During the restoration, evidence of a walk-in-fireplace and beehive oven was discovered. These features have been reconstructed and are in use today.

Thomas Massey was born in the village of Marpoole (Marple) in Cheshire, England. Arriving in America at the age of twenty Thomas disembarked at Chester as an indentured servant to Francis Stanfield, who thusly provided transportation for eight people to the New World. Thomas fulfilled his indenture and received the promised 50 acres of ground from his master and 50 acres from William Penn.

In 1964 the Massey House was on the verge of demolition when a descendant, Lawrence M.C. Smith bought the house and one acre of ground, and gave it to the Township of Marple for restoration. Restoration was to be completed in ten years. Although the “plantation” is now only one acre, gardens of the period are maintained.

The house is furnished with 17th and 18th century furniture and is open to the public for tours between 1 and 4 Sunday afternoon beginning with the last weekend in April and ending the last weekend in October.

References

External links

* [http://www.thomasmasseyhouse.org/ Thomas Massey House official site]
* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa0404 Thomas Massey House] at the Historic American Buildings Survey


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