Besides the many Eighteenth Century houses still standing in the older parts of Philadelphia, the following, either within the present City limits or in the neighbourhood, are of interest for architectural or other reasons: ENGLE HOUSE, Main and Lafayette Sts. DIRCK KEYSER HOUSE, 6205 Main St. PRICE HOUSE, Germantown Cricket Club. DAVID RITTENHOUSE COTTAGE, Lincoln Drive. THE MONASTERY (GORGAS HOUSE), Wissa- LITTLE WAKEFIELD, Fishers Lane. GRANGE FARM, near Tabor Station. VERNON, Jenkintown. FAIRFIELD, York Road above Fishers Lane. ANNSBURY FARM, Second St. Pike and York Road. FORREST HILL, Rising Sun Lane. DIGBY PLACE, Fox Chase. WISTAR HOUSE, Frankford. BARTON HOUSE, Frankford. HUCKEL HOUSE, Frankford. SUMMER HILL, Frankford. SUNBURY HOUSE, Croydon, Bucks. TWADDELL HOUSE, 45th St. and Baltimore Avenue. SELLERS HALL, Millbourne. BENJAMIN WEST HOUSE, Swarthmore. ELM HALL, Montgomery and Bowman BROOKMEAD, Devon. FOULKE HOUSE, Penllyn. JOSEPH EVANS HOUSE, Gwynedd. RIDDLE HOUSE, Glen Riddle. LEIPER HOUSE, near Swarthmore. THE RABBIT, near Bala. FISHER HOUSE, Fairmount Park. STRAWBERRY MANSION, Fairmount Park. RIDGELAND, Fairmount Park. THE LILACS, Fairmount Park. This list might be greatly extended, but the names given serve to show the wealth of old places in the Philadelphia neighbourhood. In the preparation of this volume many private papers and documents have been consulted, as well as deeds, briefs of title and inventories. Besides these manuscript sources, sundry old and rare volumes have contributed fragments of information here and there. Some of the material has been supplied by the verbal communications of aged people-facts and traditions that have never been committed to writing. From the nature of the case it would be impossible and perhaps not wholly desirable to give an exhaustive bibliography. Of the printed sources, however, among the books that have been of the chiefest use are the following: Germantown Guide Book, C. F. Jenkins. Germantown Road and Its Associations, Townsend Ward. Sally Wister's Journal. Elizabeth Drinker's Diary. William Black's Diary. Jacob Hiltzheimer's Diary. Ann Warder's Diary. History of Germantown, Dr. Keyser and others. Hotchkin's Germantown. Scharf and Westcott's Germantown. Pennsylvania in American History, S. W. Pennypacker. The True William Penn, Sydney George Fisher. Deborah Logan's Courtship, A. C. Myers. Travels in the Confederation, Dr. Schoepf. Travels in America, One Hundred Years Ago, Twining. 1783. Hamilton's Itinerarium, 1744. Peter Kalm, Swedish Traveler, 1748. The Quakers in the American Colonies, Jones-Sharpless. Through Colonial Doorways, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. The Wharton Family, Pennsylvania Magazine. Anthony Wayne, Spears. Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Jordan. Penn-Logan Correspondence. Historic Mansions of Philadelphia, T. Westcott. Pennsylvania Gazette. History of Philadelphia, Westcott. Fairmount Park, C. S. Keyser. Colonial Mansions, Thomas Allen Glenn. Life of General Anthony Wayne, C. J. Stille. Rebecca Franks, Max J. Kohler. The Jews of Philadelphia, Morais. The Fisher Family, Smith. Memoirs of Dr. George Logan, Deborah Norris Logan. The Life of Major André, Winthrop Sargent. Pennsylvania Magazine. Merion in the Welsh Tract, Glenn. The Wynnes, Deem. Wynne Family Genealogy, Cook. Memorials of Friends, Collections of 1787, 1869 and 1879. |