Embreeville Historic District

Embreeville Historic District

Embreeville Historic District, October 2011
Location Rt. 162, Newlin Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 39°53′42″N 75°44′09″W / 39.89500°N 75.73583°W / 39.89500; -75.73583Coordinates: 39°53′42″N 75°44′09″W / 39.89500°N 75.73583°W / 39.89500; -75.73583
Area 65 acres (26 ha)
MPS West Branch Brandywine Creek MRA
NRHP Reference # 85002350[1]
Added to NRHP September 16, 1985

Embreeville Historic District is a national historic district located in Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 12 contributing buildings along the east and west banks of the West Branch Brandywine Creek in the village of Embreeville. It includes a variety of vernacular, banked, stuccoed stone buildings. They were largely built between about 1822 and 1842, with the earliest house built about 1760. The buildings include a farmhouse, a country store, a storekeeper's house, a blacksmith's house, a wheelwright's house and store, a grist mill known as the Embreeville Mill, a "mansion" (1856), and miller's house.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

Gallery

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Martha Leigh Wolf (December 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Embreeville Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-12-23.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/29/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.