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The Chestnut Hill Historic District is a historic area covering all the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in 1985.
Video Chestnut Hill Historic District (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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
Maps Chestnut Hill Historic District (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
See also
- Awbury Historic District
- Colonial Germantown Historic District
- RittenhouseTown Historic District
- Tulpehocken Station Historic District
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References
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External links
- Chestnut Hill Historical Society
- National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form
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