A guide book of art, architecture, and historic interests in Pennsylvania
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A guide book of art, architecture, and historic interests in Pennsylvania
Architecture -- Pennsylvania; Art -- Pennsylvania; Historic buildings -- Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania -- Guidebooks; Pennsylvania -- History
Near Doylestown, National Farm School, four hundred acres, pioneer
Jewish institution of its kind in America, founded, 1898. From
Doylestown southwest, two miles, CASTLE VALLEY, Prospect or Spruce Hill,
fine view, and grave, according to county tradition, of Lenape Chief,
Tammany, whose name is used in Tammany Hall, New York; continuing the
automobile route, Buckingham turnpike near Doylestown, small stone
bridge, said to be 179 years old; facing masonry, more modern; date
stone, 1814. BUCKINGHAM, Tavern, General Green’s headquarters, lunch
room restored in ancient style; Friends Meeting House, with lost graves
of Continental soldiers along roadside; Buckingham Mountain and Wolf
Rocks, center of runaway slave settlement, old negro church on summit;
left of Old York Road, ancient limestone quarries and kilns; HOLICONG or
“Conkey Hole” deep funnel-shaped depression with water hole in
neighboring field; residence of Colonel H. D. Paxson, contains unique
collection of light and fire making apparatus, and of North American
Indian objects including the Lenape Stone; LAHASKA, Dr. Staveley’s
residence, “Bleak House.” AQUETONG, Logan’s or Ingham Spring, one of the
largest limestone springs in East United States, residence of Samuel
Ingham, General Jackson’s Secretary of State; north of York Road,
SOLEBURY, Friends Meeting House.
CENTER BRIDGE, on the Delaware, house in which William G. Whittier, the
poet, lived. Residence of Edward W. Redfield, landscape painter, many of
his paintings are made from scenes in this vicinity. NEW HOPE, summer
art colony, residence W. L. Lathrop, and other artists; Parry House,
“Cintra,” stone, with walls of great thickness, said to have been built
by William Maris in 1816, is so strikingly like the famous Octagon House
in Washington, D. C, that both were probably from the same model, a wing
of the old castle “Cintra” near Lisbon, Portugal; the heavy paneled
cherry doors, with silver-plated knobs, on first floor, are said to have
been originally part of Robert Morris’ house, “The Hills,” in Fairmount
Park; Mr. Maris is credited with several buildings in New Hope, also,
near New Hope, “Spring Dale,” with octagonal entrance hall, once the
home of Dr. Charles Huffnagle, who was United States Consul to Calcutta
and later United States Consul General to British India; who brought a
notable collection of curios from the Orient which for many years were
on exhibition at Spring Dale.
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