Chestnut Hill Historic District (Philadelphia)
Chestnut Hill Historic District | |
Houston-Sauveur House (1885), 8205 Seminole Avenue. | |
| Location | Roughly bounded by Fairmount Park and Montgomery Co. Line, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 40°4′18″N 75°12′47″W / 40.07167°N 75.21306°W |
| 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
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Inglewood Cottage
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The Anglecot
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Cherokee Village Apartments
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Sam Austin House
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St. Martins SEPTA station
See also
- Awbury Historic District
- Colonial Germantown Historic District
- RittenhouseTown Historic District
- Tulpehocken Station Historic District
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References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ 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