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HONORARY PRESIDENT MRS. RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG PRESIDENT MRS. FRANK THORNE PATTERSON VICE-PRESIDENTS MRS. H. S. PRENTISS NICHOLS MRS. HENRY BRINTON COXE MRS. EDGAR W. BAIRD MISS MARGARETTA S. HINCHMAN CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Mrs. Herbert L. Clark RECORDING SECRETARY Mrs. H. Norris Harrison TREASURER Mrs. Edward Browning MEMBERS Mrs. Lewis Audenried Mrs. Rudolph Blankenburg Mrs. William T. Carter Mrs. E. Bissell Clay Mrs. S. Grey Dayton Mrs. William A. Dick Mrs. Fitz-Eugene Dixon Mrs. Russell Duane

The first owner of Sweetbrier was Samuel Breck, who records in his notes that he built his mansion in 1797, having “out-buildings of every kind suitable for elegance and comfort. The prospect consists of the river, animated by its great trade carried on in boats of about thirty tons, drawn by horses; of a beautiful sloping lawn, terminating at that river, now nearly four hundred yards wide opposite the portico; of side-screen woods; of gardens, green-house, etc.—Sweetbrier is the name of my vill

Cedar Grove is an ancestral home of the Morris family. The house, which stood for over two hundred years near Harrowgate station in Frankford, in 1927 was removed stone by stone. It has been re-erected on Lansdowne Drive near Memorial Hall, with its original contents, through the generosity of Miss Lydia Thompson Morris. The land at Frankford was bought in 1714 by Thomas Coates of High Street, the father of Elizabeth Coates. In 1721 Elizabeth married Isaac Paschall, and it is from this time that

Belmont was the product of gradual growth. In the stone cottage Judge Richard Peters, the most famous owner of the estate, was born on June 22, 1744. The adjoining brick structure, ultimately forming a south wing of the mansion house, comes next in order of time, 1745. The present main house, of brick and rubble, followed, probably about 1755, and, somewhat later, the great stair tower. The style of their ornaments indicates these were finished about 1760, and we know that by 1762 they stood ess

Strawberry’s first owner, in 1798, was Judge Lewis, a notable lawyer and a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly. The original house was of the then new American style with certain light touches reminiscent of the Adam period, the entrance hall having four niches and gouged mouldings. The wings in the taste of the Greek Revival were added about 1825 by the second owner Judge Joseph Hemphill, a close friend of Jefferson and an ardent democrat. Lafayette was among the many distinguished guests enter

Woodford has long been distinguished for its stately proportions, tawny yellow brickwork and many-paned windows, behind a screen of beautiful walnut trees. It has lately been opened to the public by Daniel T. V. Huntoon, Trustee of the estate of the late Naomi Wood. Her bequest of her collection together with an endowment fund, has been the means of accomplishing this restoration. The early history of Woodford is not definitely known, as there were nine changes of ownership from 1693, when the o

The mansion built in 1761 by John Macpherson was sold on March 27, 1779, to Benedict Arnold. Keeping a life interest himself, he settled it, as his marriage gift, on his beautiful bride, the heiress Peggy Shippen, daughter of Edward Shippen. Benedict Arnold never occupied it. Later his life interest was confiscated and the mansion was sold in 1781. Edward Shippen ultimately consolidated the entire ownership in his family by purchase in 1784. Meanwhile the house had had another distinguished tena

The Cliffs stands above the East River Drive, commanding a splendid view down the Schuylkill to the south toward Lemon Hill, and to the north past Mount Pleasant. The house, a compact structure of stuccoed rubble, was built by Samuel Rowland Fisher in 1741 and, unlike several other of the park houses in the Museum group, remained in the ownership of one family until taken over by the Park Commission in 1868. It had, however, been leased from time to time, as a letter dated 1789 bears witness, wr

Lemon Hill was built in 1798 on the site of the Robert Morris country house called “The Hills.” Here he had his famous green houses with the first lemon trees in Philadelphia, which ultimately gave their name to the estate. On Morris’ insolvency it was purchased by Henry Pratt, an opulent merchant, who built the present house. The oval drawing room was of the type then popular among the leaders of the government and society, found also in the White House in Washington and in the homes of Alexand

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