Benjamin Rush House
Benjamin Rush House | |
 Benjamin Rush House, January 2011 | |
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| Location | Boot Rd., West Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 40°0′32″N 75°36′17″W / 40.00889°N 75.60472°W |
| Area | 1.4 acres (0.57 ha) |
| Built | 1908 |
| Architect | George Bispham Page |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Other, Georgian Revival |
| MPS | West Whiteland Township MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 84003300[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 2, 1984 |
Benjamin Rush House, also known as Chesteridge, is a historic home located in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1908 as a summer home for an insurance company president named Benjamin Rush. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, six-bay dwelling built of green serpentine stone and fieldstone in the Georgian Revival style. It has a 1+1⁄2-story service wing and a 2-story library wing, added in 1928.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". ARCH: Pennsylvania's Historic Architecture & Archaeology. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2012-10-28. Retrieved 2012-11-02. Note: This includes M. L. Wolf and Brandywine Cons. (December 1981). "Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form: Benjamin Rush House" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-11-05.
