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Claus Rittenhouse House, Lincoln Drive & Rittenhouse Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

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Significance: The building is one of the earliest surviving structures constructed by German-speaking people in the State of Pennsylvania. The building and site also possess exceptional significance as an industrial community and for the association to various members of the Rittenhouse family. The site is an important industrial community whose history spans the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries and is the core of an industrial village that once included over forty industrial, agricultural, institutional, and domestic structures.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-107

Survey number: HABS PA-16

Building/structure dates: 1707 Initial Construction

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Rittenhouse, William
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States ,  40.04665, -75.16701
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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