Chestnut Hill Historic District (Philadelphia)

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.

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

See also

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

References

External links

• Chestnut Hill Historical Society
• National Register of Historic Places Inventory–Nomination Form