Arnest, Dauphin & Diamond Drives & 33rd Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Significance: Apparently erected around 1810 as a Philadelphia businessman's rural retreat, Arnest is one of the later and more modest villas purchased by the City of Philadelphia during the mid-19th century formation of Fairmount Park. The City's acquisition of this and other villa properties effectively extended the benefits of a private Arcadian pleasure ground to the public at large. Since then, the house and its immediate surroundings have come to represent one of the most legible surviving fragments of a villa group that developed along Edgeley Point Lane.
Survey number: HABS PA-6212
Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1830 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1995 Demolished
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001151