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
Return to Philadelphia on Bristol and Frankford Turnpike; “The King’s
Highway,” laid out by Provincial Council, first road cut through Bucks
County; early milestones still standing; pass Wheat Sheaf to Pennsbury,
site of William Penn’s country house, frames and other work brought from
England; he lived here one year. EDGELY, greenhouses where “Queen of
Edgely Rose” originated; Landreth’s seed farms above BRISTOL,
population, 10,273, named for Bristol, England, home of William Penn’s
wife, Hannah Callowhill; the Keene house, built by Major Lenox, 1816,
American minister to England, his niece, Sarah Lukens Keene, inherited
and died here, bequeathing it to the Protestant Episcopal Church of
Philadelphia, in trust, as home for aged gentlewomen; St. James’
Protestant Episcopal Church, built, 1712, has silver communion service
presented by Queen Anne, church was used for stable by cavalry during
the Revolution; interesting burial ground, tomb of Captain John Green of
American Navy, said to have been first to carry the American flag in
voyage around the world. Farmers’ Bank of Bucks County, Radcliffe
Street, Grecian, Ionic, built by James Craig, nephew of Nicholas Biddle,
for residence, bought for bank, 1830.
LANGHORNE, residence of Joseph Richardson, Esq., built, 1738, Edge Hill
stone, with white oak joists and rafters, sawed by hand with pit saw,
now occupied by his descendants; headquarters of Lafayette and Dr. Peter
Yarnall. “Night after battle of Trenton, part of Washington’s army came
to Attleboro,” now Langhorne: old Galloway House, Trevose, residence of
Jeremiah Langhorne, part owner of Durham Furnace. One mile east, on
Lincoln Highway, is stone mansion, one of the oldest in Pennsylvania,
exterior is in original state, residence of the late A. Haller Gross,
Esq., notable for its art, architecture, and landscape gardening; an
addition, in French chateau style, built, 1911, has rooms and floors
enriched by very beautiful tiles, designed and made by Dr. Henry C.
Mercer; his work is further shown on the terraces and gardens; in a
fountain of green enameled tiles; the concrete balustrade, and pavilion
dragons and other devices are in the sunken Moorish garden; and in the
Italian garden, with its pergola, sun dial and fountain. BYBERRY,
birthplace Dr. Benjamin Rush in 1745, house still standing; and Friends
Meeting House, with large library. EDDINGTON, St. Francis Roman Catholic
Industrial School, built and endowed by the Drexel family; CORNWELLS,
“Castle of State in Schuylkill”; ANDALUSIA, named by John Craig,
Philadelphia merchant, in memory of successful ventures in Spain; here
is Church of the Redeemer and King Free Library. Old Red Lion Inn, on
the Pike, near three-arched stone bridge, over Poquessing Creek,
Washington’s army encamped around it in 1781, on march to Yorktown;
seven years earlier, Massachusetts delegates to the First Continental
Congress stopped here.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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