Claus Rittenhouse House, Lincoln Drive & Rittenhouse Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Summary
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
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Rittenhouse, William
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 40.04665, -75.16701
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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