Pont Reading is a historic home located in the Ardmore section of Haverford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was the residence of shipbuilder and architect Joshua Humphreys, in which he lived his entire life. It was named after his family's homestead, Reading Pont in Wales. Humphreys is most notable for his design of the famous USS Constitution, or "Old Ironsides". The home was built of stone, now stuccoed, in 1730, around a log cabin dating to 1683. The rear kitchen wing was added in 1813. The building is an excellent example of upper-class colonial architecture.
Cheyney is an unincorporated community that sits astride Chester and Delaware counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It corresponds to the census-designated place known as Cheyney University, which had a population of 988 at the 2010 census. It is the home of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. The university derives its name from George Cheyney's Farm, which became the current campus of Cheyney University in 1902. George Cheyney's Farm and the surrounding area was part of the original land grant given to William Penn in 1681.
Donegal Mills Plantation is a historic grist mill complex located at East Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The complex consists of the mill, mansion, miller's house, and bake house. The mill was built in 1775, and is a three-story building. The original section of mansion was built before 1790, and is a two-story, stuccoed stone building with a gable roof. The mansion was expanded about 1820, with a frame kitchen wing, and about 1830, with a stone two-story addition. It features a full-length, two-story, porch supported by five brick and stucco columns. The miller's house was originally built about, and is a 3+1⁄2-story, stuccoed stone building with a gable roof. It was expanded to its present size about 1830. The bake house is a two-story, gable roofed frame building. The property was auctioned in May 2010.
"Melrose", also known as the Old President's House, is a historic home located on the campus of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania in Cheyney, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, vernacular stone residence. It has three sections: the original section built before 1785, a three-bay addition built in 1807, and a two-bay addition built about 1850. The 122-acre farm for which the house served as the main residence became the basis for the Cheyney University of Pennsylvania campus. The house served as the President's House from 1903 to 1968.
The Lower Swedish Cabin is an historic Swedish-style log cabin which is located on Creek Road in the Drexel Hill section of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, along Darby Creek. The cabin may be one of the oldest log cabins in the United States and is one of the last cabins built by the Swedish settlers that remains intact.
Glenays, also known as Leighton House, was an historic home which was located in Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Collen Brook Farm, also known as Collenbrook, is a historic home and associated buildings located in Upper Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The complex includes three contributing buildings: a farmhouse, a granite spring house, and stone and frame carriage house. The house is a 2+1⁄2-story, vernacular stone residence with a Georgian plan and consisting of three sections. The oldest section was built around 1700, with additions made in 1774, and 1794. It was the home of noted educator and political leader George Smith (1804–1882).
The Angle Farm, also known as Maplebrow, is a historic home located southeast of Mercersburg in Montgomery Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. A three-part, two-story, five-bay log and timber frame dwelling, it is supported by a fieldstone foundation.
Abbeville, also known as Mt. Pleasant, is a historic home located at 1140 Columbia Avenue in Lancaster Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Kirks Mills Historic District is a national historic district located at Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The district includes 12 contributing buildings in the village of Kirks Mills. Those buildings are: Jacob Kirk's Mansion House, Brick Mill / Kirk's Mill, the brick miller's house, stone and log barn converted to a residence in 1975, Joseph Reynold's House (1825), Eastland Friend's Meeting and Tenant House, Ephriam B. Lynch House (1880s), Harry Reynolds House, Manuel Reynolds House, Eastland School House (1838), and Log House. The Jacob Kirk's Mansion House is a three-story, brick dwelling with a two-story ell. It features a full porch on the front and right sides. Kirk's Mill is a 2+1⁄2-story brick building with a slate gable roof. It was remodeled to a residence about 1940.
Miller's House at Spring Mill is a historic building in the Spring Mill section of Whitemarsh, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located about 200 feet from where Spring Mill Creek empties into the Schuylkill River, it is about a quarter-mile southeast of the Borough of Conshohocken.
Weidner Mill is a historic grist mill complex located on Manatawny Creek in Amity Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The complex consists of the 2+1⁄2-story stone-and-brick banked mill (1855); 2+1⁄2-story, stucco-over-stone farmhouse ; 1+1⁄2-story, stucco-over-stone, combined smokehouse and spring house ; 2+1⁄2-story, stucco-over-stone tenant house ; stucco-over-stone bank barn ; and the millrace and dam. The mill ceased operation in the 1940s. The mill was built as part of a working farm.
Mill Tract Farm, also known as the George Boone Homestead, is a historic house and farm complex located in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The original section of the house was built about 1750, with a western addition built about 1790 and rear additions completed between 1790 and 1820. It is a two-story, five-bay, L-shaped fieldstone dwelling in the Georgian style. Also on the property are a 2+1⁄2-story, stone grist mill ; early-19th-century, 2+1⁄2-story, fieldstone tenant house; large, late-18th-century stone-and-frame barn; stone pig pen; and two-story, stone horse barn. The grist mill was purportedly built by George Boone, III, grandfather of frontiersman Daniel Boone, who received the original land grant.
The Boyer–Mertz Farm, also known as Angstadt Farm, is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in Maxatawny Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
White Horse Tavern, also known as the White Horse Inn and Old Swanenburg Farm, is a historic inn and tavern located in East Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The building consists of two sections. The original section dates to about 1750, and is a two-story, stuccoed stone structure. The western section was added about 1790. Located at mile marker 24 on the Old Lancaster Road, it was an overnight stop on the first stage from Philadelphia to Lancaster. General George Washington used the older part as his headquarters following the Battle of Brandywine and during the aborted "Battle of the Clouds." It was also an important stop for Washington's messenger from Valley Forge to Lancaster, when the latter served as the temporary U.S. capital.
Squire Cheyney Farm is a historic farm and national historic district located in Thornbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses two contributing buildings, three contributing sites, one contributing structure, and contributing object. They are the farmhouse, barn, ruins of a granary, remains of an ice house, a spring house (1799), stone retaining wall, and family cemetery. The house was built in four periods, with the oldest dated to about 1797. The oldest section is a 2 1/s-story, three bay, stuccoed stone structure with a gable roof. The additions were built about 1815, about 1830, and about 1850, making it a seven-bay-wide dwelling. It is "L"-shaped and has a slate gable roof. During the American Revolution, Thomas "Squire" Cheyney [II] informed General George Washington during the Battle of Brandywine that the British were flanking him to the north. He was later appointed to the Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention to ratify the United States Constitution. The site is now a township park known as Squire Cheyney Farm Park.
French Creek Farm, also known as The Aman Farm, is a historic farm and national historic district located in West Vincent Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The farm has four contributing buildings. They are a stone spring house (1795), stuccoed small barn and wagonshed (1796–97), 2+1⁄2-story stone smokehouse (1799), and the farmhouse. The farmhouse was built in three stages and is a 2+1⁄2-story, six-bay stone dwelling with a gable roof. The oldest section was built in 1804–04, with additions made in 1808 and 1812.
The Hockley Mill Farm, also known as Mt. Pleasant Mills and Frank Knauer Mill, is an historic home and grist mill which is located in Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
There are two historic mills called Warwick Mills. The older of the two is in Pennsylvania and is no longer running. The other is in New Hampshire, and is still manufacturing today.
Cleremont Farm is a historic home and farm located near Upperville, Loudoun County, Virginia. The original section of the house was built in two stages between about 1820 and 1835, and added onto subsequently in the 1870s. 1940s. and 1980s. It consists of a stone portion, a log portion, and a stone kitchen wing. It has a five bay, two-story, gable-roofed center section in the Federal style. A one-bay, one-story Colonial Revival-style pedimented entrance portico was built in the early 1940s. Also on the property are the contributing original 1+1⁄2-story, stuccoed stone dwelling (1761); a stone kitchen from the late 19th or early 20th century; a stuccoed frame tenant house built about 1940; a stone carriage mount; and a series of five stone walls.
