Benjamin Rush House

Benjamin Rush House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Benjamin Rush House, January 2011
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Location	Boot Rd., West Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°0′32″N75°36′17″W / 40.00889°N 75.60472°W / 40.00889; -75.60472
Area	1.4 acres (0.57 ha)
Built	1908
Architect	George Bispham Page
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Other, Georgian Revival
MPS	West Whiteland Township MRA
NRHP reference No.	84003300 [1]
Added to NRHP	August 2, 1984

Benjamin Rush House, also known as Chesteridge, is a historic home located in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1908 as a summer home for an insurance company president named Benjamin Rush. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, six-bay dwelling built of green serpentine stone and fieldstone in the Georgian Revival style. It has a 1+1⁄2-story service wing and a 2-story library wing, added in 1928. ^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. M. L. Wolf and Brandywine Cons. (December 1981). National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennsylvania MPS Rush, Benjamin, House. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved December 14, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)