Chestnut Hill Historic District (Philadelphia)

Chestnut Hill Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Houston-Sauveur House (1885), 8205 Seminole Avenue.
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Location	Roughly bounded by Fairmount Park and Montgomery Co. Line, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°4′18″N75°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
NRHP reference No.	85001334 [1]
Added to NRHP	June 20, 1985

The Chestnut Hill Historic District is a historic area covering all the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ^[2]

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

• 
  Inglewood Cottage
• 
  The Anglecot
• 
  Cherokee Village Apartments
• 
  Sam Austin House
• 
  St. Martins SEPTA station

See also

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

• Philadelphia portal

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. Jefferson M. Moak (1985). National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennsylvania SP Chestnut Hill Historic District. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved January 6, 2026. (Downloading may be slow.)

External links

• Chestnut Hill Historical Society
• National Register of Historic Places Inventory–Nomination Form
• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-1700, " Houston–Sauveur House, 8205 Seminole Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA ", 2 photos, 1 photo caption page