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National Park Seminary, Edgewood, Between Linden Lane & Beach Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Edgewood, Between Linden Lane & Beach Drive, S...

Significance: Edgewood most likely served as a faculty residence for the National Park Seminary. Survey number: HABS MD-1109-X

Coffren House, 10007 Croom Road, Croom, Prince George's County, MD

Coffren House, 10007 Croom Road, Croom, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The Coffren House, and adjacent Coffren Store, are significant as a surviving, rural general merchandise store and storekeepers dwelling complex. Once a familiar part of the rural landscape, the ... More

High Farm, House, Creek Road, 1 mile West of Easton Road, Pipersville, Bucks County, PA

High Farm, House, Creek Road, 1 mile West of Easton Road, Pipersville,...

Significance: The High Farm is an excellent example of a Bucks County stone farm house with an unusual floor plan which is almost a mirror image of itself. An unique arrangement of twin, boxed-winder stairways ... More

Lyles House, Livingston Road, Fort Washington, Prince George's County, MD

Lyles House, Livingston Road, Fort Washington, Prince George's County,...

Significance: These are the remains of an important example of early 18th-century Maryland architecture. Although in ruinous condition, much can be learned of the construction and architecture of this period f... More

Franklin Park Zoo, Bear Dens, Seaver Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Franklin Park Zoo, Bear Dens, Seaver Street, Boston, Suffolk County, M...

Significance: Built in 1912, the Bear Dens were among the first structures to be erected in Boston's Franklin Park Zoo, and were used continuously until 1971. The design for the dens was the work of landscape a... More

Compton Bassett, 16508 Old Marlboro Pike, Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, MD

Compton Bassett, 16508 Old Marlboro Pike, Upper Marlboro, Prince Georg...

Significance: Compton Bassett is one of the finest Georgian mansions in Prince George's County. It embodies the distinctive characteristics of Georgian architecture such as the central pedimented pavilion fron... More

Arney's Mount Friends Meeting House, Southwest corner of Juliustown & Arney's Mount Roads, Mount Holly, Burlington County, NJ

Arney's Mount Friends Meeting House, Southwest corner of Juliustown & ...

Significance: Arney's Mount Friends Meeting House, erected of local Bog Iron stone between 1775 and 1776, represents a particularly domestic-looking meeting house form. The development of this form was likely a... More

Burgess Foulke House, 26 North Main Street, Quakertown, Bucks County, PA

Burgess Foulke House, 26 North Main Street, Quakertown, Bucks County, ...

Significance: Erected by Edward Foulke, it was the home of the first burgess of the Borough of Quakertown and the family homestead for the prominent Foulke family. It is an excellent example of early English Qu... More

Harmony Hall, 10500 Livingstone Road (10511 Livingstone Road), Friendly, Prince George's County, MD

Harmony Hall, 10500 Livingstone Road (10511 Livingstone Road), Friendl...

City/Vicinity has been changed twice. Original location was Broad Creek, the second location was Friendly vicinity, & the third location is Fort Washington, all in Prince George's County, Maryland. Significanc... More

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...

Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More

Plymouth Friends Meeting House, Corner of Germantown & Butler Pikes, Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery County, PA

Plymouth Friends Meeting House, Corner of Germantown & Butler Pikes, P...

The documentation for HABS PA-179 belongs to this record. It is incorrectly identified as Quaker Meetinghouse in Haverford, PA. Significance: Built in two parts, the original section of Plymouth Meeting House ... More

Montpelier, Montpelier Drive & State Route 197, Laurel, Prince George's County, MD

Montpelier, Montpelier Drive & State Route 197, Laurel, Prince George'...

Significance: Montpelier is a National Historic Landmark as a distinguished example of a late Georgian, five-part plantation house with exceptionally fine interior detailing. Montpelier is also of significance ... More

Montpelier, Montpelier Drive & State Route 197, Laurel, Prince George's County, MD

Montpelier, Montpelier Drive & State Route 197, Laurel, Prince George'...

Significance: Montpelier is a National Historic Landmark as a distinguished example of a late Georgian, five-part plantation house with exceptionally fine interior detailing. Montpelier is also of significance ... More

Darby Friends Meeting House, 1017 Main Street, Darby, Delaware County, PA

Darby Friends Meeting House, 1017 Main Street, Darby, Delaware County,...

Significance: Built in 1805, the Darby Meeting House was designed in the prototypical doubled form of the late eighteenth century. It appears unaltered from its original design and includes significant intact a... More

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...

Previous structure names, Andrew Hamilton House & William Hamilton House, removed from name field due to more current research which revealed that Andrew Hamilton House was incorrect & William Hamilton House wa... More

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...

Previous structure names, Andrew Hamilton House & William Hamilton House, removed from name field due to more current research which revealed that Andrew Hamilton House was incorrect & William Hamilton House wa... More

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...

Previous structure names, Andrew Hamilton House & William Hamilton House, removed from name field due to more current research which revealed that Andrew Hamilton House was incorrect & William Hamilton House wa... More

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...

Previous structure names, Andrew Hamilton House & William Hamilton House, removed from name field due to more current research which revealed that Andrew Hamilton House was incorrect & William Hamilton House wa... More

Canyon Ranch (San Jacinto), Foreman's House, San Jacinto, Elko County, NV

Canyon Ranch (San Jacinto), Foreman's House, San Jacinto, Elko County,...

Survey number: HABS NV-46-B Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Forty Acres, 30168 Garces Highway (Northwest Corner of Garces Highway and Mettler Avenue), Delano, Kern County, CA

Forty Acres, 30168 Garces Highway (Northwest Corner of Garces Highway ...

Significance: Forty Acres is closely associated with the life of Cesar Chavez and the history of the farm worker movement he led from 1962 until his death in 1993. Located on the outskirts of Delano, California... More

Ranch Architecture of Northeastern Nevada, Deeth, Elko County, NV

Ranch Architecture of Northeastern Nevada, Deeth, Elko County, NV

Survey number: HABS NV-40 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cherry Walk, Dairy and Smoke House Complex, Dunbrooke Road (Route 620), 2.25 miles north of Richmond Highway (U.S. Route 360), Millers Tavern, Essex County, Virginia

Cherry Walk, Dairy and Smoke House Complex, Dunbrooke Road (Route 620)...

Significance: Erected ca. 1810-1830, this connected group of frame buildings including the North Dairy, Smokehouse, and South Dairy represent an excellent, intact example of the types of outbuildings found on w... More

Cherry Walk, Dairy and Smoke House Complex, Dunbrooke Road (Route 620), 2.25 miles north of Richmond Highway (U.S. Route 360), Millers Tavern, Essex County, Virginia

Cherry Walk, Dairy and Smoke House Complex, Dunbrooke Road (Route 620)...

Significance: Erected ca. 1810-1830, this connected group of frame buildings including the North Dairy, Smokehouse, and South Dairy represent an excellent, intact example of the types of outbuildings found on w... More

Chichester Friends Meeting House, 611 Meetinghouse Road, Boothwyn, Delaware County, PA

Chichester Friends Meeting House, 611 Meetinghouse Road, Boothwyn, Del...

Significance: Chichester Meeting House is a well-preserved and unusual example of eighteenth-century Quaker meeting-house architecture in the Delaware Valley. Erected between 1769 and 1771, the building follows... More

Chichester Friends Meeting House, 611 Meetinghouse Road, Boothwyn, Delaware County, PA

Chichester Friends Meeting House, 611 Meetinghouse Road, Boothwyn, Del...

Significance: Chichester Meeting House is a well-preserved and unusual example of eighteenth-century Quaker meeting-house architecture in the Delaware Valley. Erected between 1769 and 1771, the building follows... More

Sasscer's House, 5415 Old Crain Highway (U.S. Route 301), Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, MD

Sasscer's House, 5415 Old Crain Highway (U.S. Route 301), Upper Marlbo...

Significance: Kingston, as the house is popularly known, is one of the oldest remaining structures in the town of Upper Marlboro. The original structure is believed to have been constructed before 1730. In ad... More

Old Kennett Meeting House, U.S. Route 1, 1 mile North of Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Chester County, PA

Old Kennett Meeting House, U.S. Route 1, 1 mile North of Longwood Gard...

1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: Old Kennett is one of the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected sometime between 1718 and 1731. Its single-cell, c... More

National Park Seminary, Villa, Northwest corner of campus, near Capitol Beltway (I-495), Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Villa, Northwest corner of campus, near Capito...

Significance: The dormitory was added in 1907 to accommodate an expanding student population. In this regard, it is a testament to the school's success and popularity. Its Italianate design is one of the many... More

Coffren House, Store, 10007 Croom Road, Croom, Prince George's County, MD

Coffren House, Store, 10007 Croom Road, Croom, Prince George's County,...

Significance: The Coffren Store is a rare example of a well-preserved, mid 19th-century general merchandise store. Small local stores of this type one-room utilitarian structures including a Post Office on... More

Thomas Farm, House, 4632 Araby Church Road, Frederick, Frederick County, MD

Thomas Farm, House, 4632 Araby Church Road, Frederick, Frederick Count...

Significance: The property dates to a 1,400-acre land grant called Wett Work, which was patented in 1729, although apparently not occupied or improved until the 1740s. The 1748 completion of the Georgetown Road... More

Thomas Farm, House, 4632 Araby Church Road, Frederick, Frederick County, MD

Thomas Farm, House, 4632 Araby Church Road, Frederick, Frederick Count...

Significance: The property dates to a 1,400-acre land grant called Wett Work, which was patented in 1729, although apparently not occupied or improved until the 1740s. The 1748 completion of the Georgetown Road... More

William VanHorn House, Taylorsville Road, Edgeboro, Bucks County, PA

William VanHorn House, Taylorsville Road, Edgeboro, Bucks County, PA

Significance: A good example of a Bucks County farmhouse constructed of stone, and with exceptional detailing inside and out. It consists of an early plastered stone section with a later, early 19th century sto... More

National Park Seminary, Indian Mission, 2790 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Indian Mission, 2790 Linden Lane, Silver Sprin...

Significance: The Indian Mission building was the clubhouse for the Theta Sigma Rho sorority. The building's design was inspired by eighteenth-century Franciscan mission churches of the Far West. The early co... More

St. Paul's Church, Northwest side Baden-Naylor Road, intersection with Horsehead Road, Baden, Prince George's County, MD

St. Paul's Church, Northwest side Baden-Naylor Road, intersection with...

Significance: St. Paul's at Baden is the oldest church in Prince George's County, and one of only six churches extant from the colonial period. In May of 1692, the Governor's Council and the Maryland Assembly ... More

Bostwick Hall, 3901 Forty-eighth Street, Bladensburg, Prince George's County, MD

Bostwick Hall, 3901 Forty-eighth Street, Bladensburg, Prince George's ...

Significance: Bostwick is one of the first, and one of the few extant, structures built in Bladensburg upon its founding in 1742. Only four pre-Revolutionary War buildings now stand. Although altered over the... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

Middletown Preparative Friends Meeting House, Middletown Road, 1 mile north of Pennell Road (Route 452), Lima, Delaware County, PA

Middletown Preparative Friends Meeting House, Middletown Road, 1 mile ...

Significance: In 1888, the Middletown Preparative Meeting House was significantly altered for the second time in order to conform to changing patterns of meeting house development. Middletown Meeting House was... More

Temora Farm, House, 372 Swamp Road, Newtown, Bucks County, PA

Temora Farm, House, 372 Swamp Road, Newtown, Bucks County, PA

Significance: Significant for its associations with prominent Newtown families of the 18th and 19th century and for its long history as an elegant manor house. Good example of the Bucks County stone farmhouse. ... More

Brighton Grange Hall, 263 Brighton Dam Road at New Hampshire Avenue, Brighton, Montgomery County, MD

Brighton Grange Hall, 263 Brighton Dam Road at New Hampshire Avenue, B...

Significance: The only extant Grange Hall in Montgomery County, and one of the few in the State. Its presence at the crossroads of this small farming community was a reflection of the economic development of th... More

Merion Friends Meeting House, 615 Montgomery Avenue (changed from Montgomery Avenue & Meetinghouse Lane), Narberth, Montgomery County, PA

Merion Friends Meeting House, 615 Montgomery Avenue (changed from Mont...

Significance: The construction of Merion began as early as 1695 and was completed by 1715, making it the oldest Friends Meeting House in the Delaware Valley. Its near cruciform plan is unprecedented in a Friend... More

Buckingham Friends Meeting House, 5684 York Road, Lahaska, Bucks County, PA

Buckingham Friends Meeting House, 5684 York Road, Lahaska, Bucks Count...

Significance: Completed in 1768, Buckingham Friends Meeting House is the earliest known example of the doubled type that became a conventional form for American Friends meeting hoses for nearly a century. While... More

Marietta, 5626 Bell Station Road, Glenn Dale, Prince George's County, MD

Marietta, 5626 Bell Station Road, Glenn Dale, Prince George's County, ...

Significance: Marietta is one of the finest surviving examples of a late Federal-style brick plantation house found in Prince George's County. It is different from most of the plantation houses of its era in t... More

Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...

See also HABS No. PA-1125 and PA-1125-A for related documentation on The Woodlands & The Woodlands, Stable-Carriage House. Additional documentation includes measured drawings, photographs, & written data. Signi... More

Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...

See also HABS No. PA-1125 and PA-1125-A for related documentation on The Woodlands & The Woodlands, Stable-Carriage House. Additional documentation includes measured drawings, photographs, & written data. Signi... More

Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...

See also HABS No. PA-1125 and PA-1125-A for related documentation on The Woodlands & The Woodlands, Stable-Carriage House. Additional documentation includes measured drawings, photographs, & written data. Signi... More

Poplar Hill, 7606 Woodyard Road (His Lordship's Kindness Road) (Rosaryville vicinity), Clinton, Prince George's County, MD

Poplar Hill, 7606 Woodyard Road (His Lordship's Kindness Road) (Rosary...

Significance: Poplar Hill, or His Lordship's Kindness as it is currently referred to, is an excellent example of an 18th-century, five-part Georgian plantation house. This elegantly detailed residence is among... More

Poplar Hill, 7606 Woodyard Road (His Lordship's Kindness Road) (Rosaryville vicinity), Clinton, Prince George's County, MD

Poplar Hill, 7606 Woodyard Road (His Lordship's Kindness Road) (Rosary...

Significance: Poplar Hill, or His Lordship's Kindness as it is currently referred to, is an excellent example of an 18th-century, five-part Georgian plantation house. This elegantly detailed residence is among... More

Wyoming, 330 Thrift Street (11530 Thrift Road), Clinton, Prince George's County, MD

Wyoming, 330 Thrift Street (11530 Thrift Road), Clinton, Prince George...

Significance: Wyoming is architecturally significant as a well preserved example of a substantial, early settlement period dwelling in the southern Tidewater tradition, the distinguishing feature of which is it... More

New West Grove Friends Meeting House, State Road, near Guernsey Road, West Grove, Chester County, PA

New West Grove Friends Meeting House, State Road, near Guernsey Road, ...

The address was changed from "New Harmony Road" to "State Road, near Guernsey Road" to more accurately reflect its location. 1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Survey number: HABS PA-6665 Buildi... More

National Park Seminary, Castle, Ravine in northeast part of campus, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Castle, Ravine in northeast part of campus, Si...

Significance: The castle is one of the NPS clubhouses. The fanciful, medieval fortress for the Pi Beta Nu sorority counterbalanced the symmetrical architectural forms, such as the villa and the Colonial House,... More

Little Egg Harbor Friends Meeting House, West Main & North Green Streets, Tuckerton, Ocean County, NJ

Little Egg Harbor Friends Meeting House, West Main & North Green Stree...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N815 Survey number: HABS NJ-1118 Building/structure dates: 1863 Initial Construction

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...

Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...

Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Windmill is one of eight whimsical clubhouses constructed during Cassedy's early building campaign. It is an important component of NPS' eclectic campus plan that was designed to introduce a ... More

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Dutch Windmill, 2750 Dewitt Circle, Silver Spr...

Significance: The Windmill is one of eight whimsical clubhouses constructed during Cassedy's early building campaign. It is an important component of NPS' eclectic campus plan that was designed to introduce a ... More

Abington (Orthodox) Friends Meetinghouse, Jenkintown Road across from Fisher Road, Jenkintown, Montgomery County, PA

Abington (Orthodox) Friends Meetinghouse, Jenkintown Road across from ...

Significance: Built in 1836, Abington Friends Meeting House reflects patterns of design found in the single-cell meeting house built during the period of early settlement in the Delaware Valley, but not frequen... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lane, Woodstove Avenue, & Smith Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Bounded by Capitol Beltway (I-495), Linden Lan...

Significance: The National Park Seminary was an elite women's college preparatory school and junior college operating from 1894 to 1942. Like many other female secondary schools created in the late nineteenth ... More

Montpelier, Montpelier Drive & State Route 197, Laurel, Prince George's County, MD

Montpelier, Montpelier Drive & State Route 197, Laurel, Prince George'...

Significance: Montpelier is a National Historic Landmark as a distinguished example of a late Georgian, five-part plantation house with exceptionally fine interior detailing. Montpelier is also of significance ... More

Radnor Friends Meeting House, Southwest corner of Sproul & Conestoga Roads, Ithan, Delaware County, PA

Radnor Friends Meeting House, Southwest corner of Sproul & Conestoga R...

Significance: Constructed largely in 1718, Radnor is one of the oldest standing meeting houses in the Delaware Valley. Its form captures patterns of American Friends Meeting House development that are extant in... More

Hazelwood, 18611 Queen Anne Road, Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, MD

Hazelwood, 18611 Queen Anne Road, Upper Marlboro, Prince George's Coun...

Significance: Hazelwood is currently in disrepair and, generally speaking, not in use. The oldest portion to the south end is being used as a caretaker's residence. The H-NCPPC is maintaining the house against ... More

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...

Previous structure names, Andrew Hamilton House & William Hamilton House, removed from name field due to more current research which revealed that Andrew Hamilton House was incorrect & William Hamilton House wa... More

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...

Previous structure names, Andrew Hamilton House & William Hamilton House, removed from name field due to more current research which revealed that Andrew Hamilton House was incorrect & William Hamilton House wa... More

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...

Previous structure names, Andrew Hamilton House & William Hamilton House, removed from name field due to more current research which revealed that Andrew Hamilton House was incorrect & William Hamilton House wa... More

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...

Previous structure names, Andrew Hamilton House & William Hamilton House, removed from name field due to more current research which revealed that Andrew Hamilton House was incorrect & William Hamilton House wa... More

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...

Previous structure names, Andrew Hamilton House & William Hamilton House, removed from name field due to more current research which revealed that Andrew Hamilton House was incorrect & William Hamilton House wa... More

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...

Previous structure names, Andrew Hamilton House & William Hamilton House, removed from name field due to more current research which revealed that Andrew Hamilton House was incorrect & William Hamilton House wa... More

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