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The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America's historic and archaeological resources.


Currently 94 buildings, bridges, parks and places in all parts of Delaware County are listed in the National Historic Register. Some you may be familiar with, others you may not know. You may also be surprised that after visiting a local landmark that it is not currently listed. The National Park Services provides a step-by-step process for nominations at nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/how-to-list-a-property.htm.

Delaware County is remarkable area with fine examples of architecture and places of cultural and historical significance throughout its urban and rural landscapes.

Listings on this site are in alphabetical order by municipality and will provide links for you to discover more about the places listed.

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National Register forms are available on the PA SHARE website- https://share.phmc.pa.gov/pashare/landing

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Page 1: Bethel- Concord                                            Page 2: Darby- Prospect Park                                      Page 3: Radnor- Upper Providence

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Radnor Township

Bridge in Radnor No. 1

This bridge is an historic stone arch bridge that carries Goshen Road over Darby Creek to Darby Paoli Road.

The current structure was built in 1905, and is an 80-foot-long arch bridge with three arch spans of 45-foot, 19-foot, and 16-foot-long. It features an unfinished stone parapet cap.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Public Road- Goshen Rd. and Darby Paoli Rd.

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Radnor Township

Camp-Woods

Camp-Woods, also known as Collenbrook, is an historic home and associated buildings located at Villanova. The house, built between 1910 and 1912, is a two-story, brick and limestone, "F"-shaped house in an Italianate-Georgian style. It features a Doric order limestone cornice, open loggia porches, and a covered entrance porch supported by Doric order columns. The house was designed by noted architect Howard Van Doren Shaw (1869-1926) and includes formal gardens.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Privately owned and not open to the public

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Radnor Historical Society Website

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Radnor Township

Downtown Wayne Historic District

Downtown Wayne Historic District is a national historic district and located in Radnor Township, Delaware County. The district includes approximately 100 properties roughly bounded by Louella Ct., West Ave., and S. Wayne Ave. Amongst the buildings is the Anthony Wayne Theatre designed in Italian Renaissance style and built around 1864.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

Many buildings open to the public

Read more about Historic Main Line

Learn about the Downtown Wayne Historic District

Radnor Historical Society Website

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Radnor Township

North Wayne Historic District

North Wayne Historic District is a national historic district located in Wayne north of the Wayne Historic Business District. The district includes 190 contributing buildings in a residential area of Wayne. The contributing dwellings were built between 1881 and 1925, and include notable examples of Shingle Style and Colonial Revival architecture. The district also reflects suburban development in the late-19th century as it was a major component of a large, planned, railroad commuter suburb called "Wayne Estate." It is also located north of the South Wayne Historic District.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Most buildings privately owned and not open to the public

Read more about Historic Main Line

Learn about the North Wayne Historic District

Radnor Historical Society Website

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Radnor Township

Radnor Friends Meetinghouse

Radnor Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house on Sproul and Conestoga Roads in Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

 

In 1686, there were sufficient number of Friends in Radnor township to begin meetings at the house of John Jerman, a Quaker minister. The current meeting house was built in 1717 with an addition made several years later. An earlier meeting house existed on the site as early as 1693. During the Revolutionary War, the meeting house was used as an outpost for General George Washington's Continental Army. 

 

The meeting house added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 

Quaker Meeting on Sundays

Radnor Friends website

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Radnor Historical Society Website

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Radnor Township

South Wayne Historic District

South Wayne Historic District is a national historic district located in Wayne, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 316 contributing buildings in a residential area of Wayne. The majority of the dwellings were built between 1881 and 1930, and include notable examples of Shingle Style and Colonial Revival architecture, representing the work of Will Price, Horace Trumbauer, and several other architects.


The district reflects suburban development in the late-19th century as it was a major component of a large, planned, railroad commuter suburb called "the Wayne Estates," complementing the northern half of the residential area which is now included in the North Wayne Historic District, and the downtown area of Wayne, which sits between the two residential districts, now the Downtown Wayne Historic District. 


It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 

Most buildings privately owned and not open to the public

Read more about Historic Main Line

Learn about the South Wayne Historic District

Radnor Historical Society Website

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Radnor Township

Woodcrest

Woodcrest is a historic mansion located on the campus of Cabrini University in Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1901, with major alterations designed by Horace Trumbauer and completed in 1907, with additional modifications executed in 1914. It is a three-story, 51 room, 47,000 square feet mansion in the Elizabethan Tudor Revival style. It was once part of a 238-acre estate, 112 acres of which is Cabrini University. The Estate of Dr. John T. Dorrance, inventor of the process for condensed soup and president of the Campbell Soup Company, sold to the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1953. Cabrini University (then called Cabrini College) opened in September 1957, and Woodcrest served as its first home.

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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

Privately owned by Cabrini College and not open to the public

Cabrini College website

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Radnor Historical Society Website

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Rose Valley Borough

Thunderbird Lodge

In 1904, architect Will Price converted an existing circa-1790 stone barn into studios for the artists Charles H. and Alice Barber Stephens. Appended to this, he designed a rambling fieldstone-and-stucco house, including a 3-story octagonal stair tower that joined the wings and served all five levels.

Price, a founder of Rose Valley, attempted to create a community of artists and artisans working side by side under the principles of the Arts and Crafts Movement. These included truth in the use of materials, traditional craftsmanship using simple forms, and often medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration.

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At the edge of the property, along Rose Valley Road, is a 1926 Pennsylvania State historic marker, commemorating an important Native American trading route, the Great Minquas Path, that ran nearby. Charles Stephens designed the bas-relief on the marker, and Albert Laessle created the beaver sculpture below the plaque.

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Thunderbird Lodge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, and is a contributing property in the Rose Valley Historic District, which was listed on the NRHP in 2010.

Thunderbird Lodge is open select weekends, by appointment and for special events. It is run by the Rose Valley Historical Society.

Learn more about Rose Valley here

Rose Valley Historical Society website

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Swarthmore Borough

Benjamin West Birthplace

The Benjamin West Birthplace is a historic home located on the campus of Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was the birthplace of artist Benjamin West (1738-1820), who was an influential mentor to a generation of American painters, including Gilbert Stuart and Charles Willson Peale.

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His birthplace was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 

Open to the public as Swarthmore College's visitor information center

Swarthmore College website

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Thornbury Township

John Cheyney Log Tenant House & Farm

John Cheyney Log Tenant House and Farm, also known as the Thomas Huston Farm, is an historic home and associated buildings located in Cheyney, Delaware County. The complex includes four contributing buildings, dated from c. 1760 to c. 1870: a part log, part stucco over stone vernacular residence; a stone and frame barn; a "garage" containing a forge and farm kitchen; and a stone spring house. The residence, or tenant house, consists of a 1 1/2-story log section, built about 1800, connected to a 3-story stucco over stone section, built between 1815 and 1848.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Privately owned and not open to the public

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Thornbury Township

Thornton Village Historic District

Thornton Village Historic District is a national historic district in Thornbury Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Located in the crossroads village of Thornton at the intersection of Glen Mills and Thornton Roads, the district includes 13 contributing buildings built between 1750 and 1855, some in the Federal style. Among its structures, most of which face Glen Mills Road, are the Yellow House, one commercial building, seven residences, a converted blacksmith shop, a converted barn, three stables or carriage houses, and two frame sheds. 

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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

Some buildings are privately owned and not open to the public

Learn more

Thornbury Historical Society website

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Tinicum Township

Printzhof

The Printzhof, located in Governor Printz Park in Essington, was the home of Johan Björnsson Printz, governor of New Sweden.

In 1643, Johan Printz moved his capital from Fort Christina (located in what is now Wilmington, Delaware) to Tinicum Island. At that time Fort Gothenburg was established in addition to Printz’s dwelling and headquarters. Two years later a fire swept over the newly established settlement. The Printzhof was reconstructed more solidly and lavishly. The two-story log structure contained lumber sent from Sweden, glass windows and lavish draperies.

Johan Björnsson Printz, his wife and younger children returned to Sweden during 1653. The Dutch West India Company subsequently captured the Swedish colony in 1655. Armegott Printz, the eldest daughter of Governor Printz, had married his successor, Lt. Johan Papegoja. She remained at The Printzhof even after the Dutch conquest. During 1662, she sold the estate for a partial down payment with the remainder due when she reached The Netherlands. When payment was refused, she returned to reclaim possession of her property. Ten years later in 1672, the Governor and Council ruled Armegott Printz should be in possession of the property. She subsequently sold the estate a second time and returned to Sweden where she died on November 25, 1695 at Läckö Castle.

Today, the Printzhof’s stone foundations are the only remains of the settlement. The Printzhof site is located near the intersection of Taylor Avenue and Second Street in Essington. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.

Public Park- open dawn-dusk 

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Upland Borough

Old Main at Crozer Theological Seminary

The Crozer Theological Seminary was a multi-denominational religious institution located in Upland, Pennsylvania. The school succeeded a Normal School established at the site and the building's use as a hospital during the American Civil War. The seminary mostly served as an American Baptist Church school, training seminarians for the entry into the Baptist ministry.

After 1970, when the seminary merged with institutions in Rochester, New York, the Old Main building was used for Crozer Hospital (now part of Crozer-Chester Medical Center.) It is a three-story, "F"-shaped, stucco coated stone building. It has three pavilions connected by a corridor with flanking rooms. Each of the pavilions is topped by a gable roof and cupola, the largest cupola being on the central pavilion. Most recently, it was used for medical offices associated with the center.

The Old Main building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Privately owned and not open to the public

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Upland Borough

Pusey-Crozer Mill District

Pusey-Crozer Mill Historic District, also known as Pusey Plantation and Landingford, is a historic mill complex and national historic district located in Upland, Delaware County. The district includes nine contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure, at the site of the first grist mill and sawmill erected by the English Quakers in 1682. They are the Pennock Log House (1790), schoolhouse (1849), four single houses (1850), large double house (1850s), mid-19th century barn, and the original mill site, headrace, and tail race. The Caleb Pusey House is located in the district and separately listed on the register.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

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The Pennock Log House was demolished in 2023 due to flood damage.

Buildings managed by Friends of Caleb Pusey House and open to the public May-October Saturdays 1-4, special events and by appointment

Read more about the Caleb Pusey House here

Caleb Pusey House website

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Upper Darby Township

Collenbrook Farm

Collen Brook Farm, also known as Collenbrook, is a historic home and associated buildings located in Upper Darby Township. The complex includes three contributing buildings: a farmhouse, a granite spring house (c. 1782), and stone and frame carriage house (c. 1870). 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).

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988

Open to the public for special events, school groups and by appointment through the Upper Darby Historical Society.

Learn more about Collenbrook Farm here

Upper Darby Historical Society website

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Upper Providence Township

Idlewild (Furness Summer Cottage)

Idlewild is a historic building near Media, Pennsylvania, designed by the Victorian-era Philadelphia architect Frank Furness as a summer cottage for himself and his family. He spent summers there until his death in 1912.

The house was built about 1890 on the grounds of the Idlewild Hotel, which Furness had designed in 1886. This was a mile west of "Lindenshade," the Wallingford summer house of his brother, Shakespearean scholar Horace Howard Furness. It was also a short walk to the Moylan-Rose Valley train station, which enabled him to commute to his architectural office in Philadelphia.

"Idlewild" is constructed with a stone basement and brick first floor. The upper floors are framed in wood and clad with cedar shingles. It has a wrap-around covered porch, high-ceilinged rooms, and an irregular roofline with variously shaped windows and eyebrow dormers. Furness placed the service rooms and front and back stairs (with a shared landing, as at the Emlen Physick House) at the front. This increases the privacy of the rooms behind, and the visual interplay between the differing scales of the "service tower" and main house gives vibrancy to the façade.

The basic form of the house – a multi-storied, semicircular apse springing from an anchoring block, with the entrance at their juncture – is closely related to Furness's 1888 design for the University of Pennsylvania Library (now the Fisher Fine Arts Library). There, the architect placed the grand staircase in a tower at the front, separating circulation to the building's upper stories from the reading rooms behind. The library's two-story, ovoid-shaped Rotunda Reading Room is wrapped by an arcing cluster of one-story seminar rooms. "Idlewild'"s porch echoes this, wrapping around the house's ovoid parlor. Furness played with similar volumes in his design for the Bryn Mawr Hotel (1890-91). The library has been described as "a collision between a cathedral and a train station."

The Furnesses lived in Philadelphia during the winter, but summered in more informal cottages.

It was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 2013.

Privately owned and not open to the public

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Radnor Township

Bridge in Radnor No. 2

This is an historic brick and concrete arch bridge built in 1905, and is a 75-foot-long, arch bridge with a single arch with a 10-foot-long span. It features an ornate parapet cap and spans the Meadow Brook Creek.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Public Road- Bryn Mawr Ave. near Drexel Ln.

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Radnor Township

Chanticleer

Chanticleer is located at 786 Church Road, Wayne. The property features a ruin, Asian Woods and a wide variety of specimen plants.  The gate is crested with carved stone roosters, or "chanticleers" in French.

The house and grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Open to the public Wednesday through Sunday, April through October; an admission fee is charged.

Read more about Historic Main Line

Chanticleer Gardens website

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Radnor Historical Society Website

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Radnor Township

Glenays

Glenays, also known as Leighton House, is a historic home located in Bryn Mawr, Delaware County. It is a three-story, stucco over stone Italian Villa style dwelling built in three sections. The first section was built in 1859, with additions built in the late-19th century and 1925. The 1925 addition and garden walls (1928) were designed by noted architect George Howe (1886–1955).

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

Privately owned and not open to the public

Learn more

Radnor Historical Society Website

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Radnor Township

PA Railroad Station at Wayne

Wayne Station is a commuter rail station located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia at North Wayne Avenue & West Avenue in Wayne. It is served by most Paoli/Thorndale Line trains.

Wayne Station was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1882 to 1884, on a design by Washington Bleddyn Powell. The original builder was William H. Bilyeu. It consists of two Victorian buildings flanking the rail lines and connected by an underground tunnel.The station building was restored from 1998 to 2010 with significant local community support and funding. The year after this restoration project began, the station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The scope of this restoration included repair or replacement of the chimney, masonry, windows, doors, and the retaining wall.

SEPTA began a $22.7 million second phase of improvements that included roof replacement, repairs to the masonry and structural members, and other upgrades to the station building. The outbound shelter, dating from about 1890, was disassembled and completely rebuilt, mostly with new materials. In addition, ADA-mandated improvements including new high-level platforms, stairs and ramps to the platforms, building modifications, lighting, handrails, and signage were installed. The new platforms, on both the inbound and outbound sides east of the station building, meant that trains no longer stop in front of the station itself, except in special cases.

Public railroad station- open daily

Read more about Historic Main Line

SEPTA website

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Radnor Historical Society Website

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Radnor Township

Saturday Club

Saturday Club is a historic women's club clubhouse located at Wayne, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1899, and is a 1 1/2-story, English Half Timber frame building. It measures approximately 55 feet by 75 feet, and has a gable roof with three gabled dormers. Its appearance is patterned after Shakespeare's Birthplace in Stratford-on-Avon, England. 

 

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 

Open for special events

Read more about Historic Main Line

Saturday Club website

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Radnor Historical Society Website

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Radnor Township

Wayne Hotel

Wayne Hotel, formerly known as The Waynewood, is a historic hotel located at Wayne, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1906, and is a five-story, Tudor Revival building, with a two-story rear extension. It is built of brick and stucco with false Half Timbering. It features a one-story, wraparound porch with a semi-circular dining projection and two projecting bay windows extending from the second to fourth floors. 


Local entrepreneur Stephen W. Bajus purchased the property in the 1980s and, after a complete refurbishment, the hotel offers all the usual modern amenities, including a restaurant, a private room for dining and meetings, 38 guest rooms plus two luxury suites and 12 off-site luxury furnished apartments for longer term stays.


It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 

Public hotel

Read more about Historic Main Line

Wayne Hotel website

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Radnor Historical Society Website

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Rose Valley Borough

Rose Valley Historic District

Rose Valley is a small, historic borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its area is 0.73 square miles, and the population was 913 at the 2010 census. The area was settled by Quaker farmers in 1682, and later water mills along Ridley Creek drove manufacturing in the nineteenth century.

 

In 1901 Rose Valley was founded as an Arts and Crafts community by architect Will Price, who bought 80 acres of land around the former Rose Valley textile mill. Price was a follower of Henry George's economics (Georgism). Price also co-founded Arden, Delaware, a utopian single tax community based on Henry George's economic model. Nevertheless, the Georgist single-tax ideal was never implemented in Rose Valley. Crafts works soon foundered, leaving a legacy of impressive architecture, a preserved landscape, and a regional theatre, the Hedgerow Theatre (founded in 1923), as well as an artistic community that includes writers, painters, and architects. As a former mayor said, "Rose Valley is an island of non-conformity." 

 

The Rose Valley Historic District, covering essentially all of the borough, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

Most buildings privately owned and not open to the public

Hedgerow Theatre open for shows and special events

Old Mill is open for weddings and events

Thunderbird Lodge has its own entry

Learn more about Rose Valley here

Hedgerow Theatre website

Rose Valley Historical Society website

Old Mill in Rose Valley website

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Swarthmore Borough

Ogden House

Ogden House is a historic home located at Swarthmore, Delaware County. It was built in 1736, and is a three-story stone house faced on three sides with dressed stone and one side with rubble stone. One of the dressed stone sides is coated with stucco. It has a double pitched roof and two massive stone chimneys.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Privately owned and not open to the public

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Thornbury Township

Chester Creek Historic District

Chester Creek Historic District is located along the west branch of Chester Creek at Thornbury Township. The district includes 52 contributing buildings and 5 structures associated with the early settlement and industrial development of the Chester Creek valley. Notable buildings and structures include the Yarnall Bank House, Locksley Mill and Manor House (1704), John Edwards House, Glen Mills Station (1882), Station House and Store (c. 1882), Willcox Mills (c. 1850), Workers' Cottages (c. 1830-1880), Daniel Broomall House, and the Hemphill House.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Most buildings privately owned and not open to the public.

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Thornbury Township

Melrose

"Melrose", also known as the Old President's House, is a historic home located on the campus of Cheyney University.

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 house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Privately owned and not open to the public

Cheyney University website

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Tinicum Township

The Lazaretto

The Philadelphia Lazaretto was the first quarantine hospital in the United States, built in 1799, in Tinicum Township. The site was originally inhabited by the Lenni Lenape, and then the first Swedish settlers in America. Nearby Province Island was the site of the confinement of the Christian Moravian Indians who were brought there under protective custody from Lancaster, PA in 1763 when their lives were threatened by the Paxton Boys. The facility predates similar national landmarks such as Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital and Angel Island and is considered both the oldest surviving quarantine hospital and the last surviving example of its type in the United States.

The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Owned by Tinicum Township and will be Township Administration building

Read more about the Lazaretto here

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Upland Borough

John P. Crozer Mansion

John P. Crozer II Mansion, also known as the Allcutt Property, is a historic mansion located in Upland. It was built in 1879-1880, and is a three-story mansion house built entirely of California redwood. An addition was built in 1907. It reflects grandiose Victorian tastes, with elements of the Gothic and Queen Anne styles. The mansion was divided into eight apartments. Also on the property are a contributing carriage house, barn, trophy house, spring house, remains of greenhouses, a root cellar and ice house.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Privately owned and not open to the public

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Upland Borough

Caleb Pusey House

The Caleb Pusey House, built in 1683, is the second oldest English house in Pennsylvania open to the public (Wall House in Cheltenham Township is the oldest - built in 1682). Built in a vernacular English yeoman's style, it is the only remaining house where William Penn is known to have visited. It stands on the 100 acres near Chester Creek which Penn granted Pusey, a plantation which the latter named "Landing Ford". It is located in what is now Upland, near Chester.

 

Since the 1950s, the building and grounds have been owned by the Friends of the Caleb Pusey House, Inc. The house was restored and the property is operated as a historic house museum.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

Buildings managed by Friends of Caleb Pusey House and open to the public May-October Saturdays 1-4, special events and by appointment

Read more about the Caleb Pusey House here​

Caleb Pusey House website​

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Upper Chichester Township

Chichester Friends Meeting House

Chichester Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at 611 Meetinghouse Road near Boothwyn, in Upper Chichester. This area, near Chester, was one of the earliest areas settled by Quakers in Pennsylvania. The meetinghouse, first built in 1688, then rebuilt after a fire in 1769 reflects this early Quaker heritage.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Open to the public by appointment or at special events

Learn more about Chichester Meetinghouse here

Chichester Historical Society website

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Upper Darby Township

Lower Swedish Cabin

Lower Swedish Cabin is a historic Swedish-style log cabin on Creek Road in Drexel Hill.

In the early 1900s film pioneer Siegmund Lubin filmed several movies at the site. The house served as a private residence until 1937, when it was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey and the Cabin became the property of the township of Upper Darby.

 

The cabin may be one of the oldest log cabins in the United States. It was likely built sometime between 1640 and 1650 by Swedish immigrants who were part of the New Sweden colony.

 

After neglect and vandalism throughout the mid-1900s the house was restored in 1987.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Open to the public May-October Sundays 1-4 and for special events.

Friends of Swedish Cabin website

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Upper Providence Township

Rose Tree Tavern

The Old Rose Tree Tavern is a historic inn and tavern located in Rose Tree Park just north of the borough of Media, in Upper Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It is a large 2 1/2-story, fieldstone building, built in 1809, on the site of a frame structure that had been built in 1739. A stone addition was built in 1836. During 2011 the building was renovated and now houses the Visitors' Bureau, Visit Delco PA.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 1971.

Open to the public 8:30-4, Monday-Friday

Visit Delco PA website

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