Kennett Square, PA II (7/25/2020)

Saturday, July 25, 2020 (continued)

Continuing the Historic Kennett Square Walking Tour:

312 S Broad St/Isaac Pyle House (1870) noted for
the filigree ironwork and the "circus tent" tin roof

Above the porch is the tin "circus tent" roof (KSS)

323 and 325 S Broad Street (1858) are two of three houses
built at the same time in Federal style

332 S Broad St/Woodward House is the third house built in 1858,
but has been embellished (c 1888, in Victorian style), to say the least

402 S Broad St/Gawthrop House (1879)
has a six-sided turret with original cap (KSS)

Gawthrop House has turned posts connected
by a reverse arched balustrade to support
the roof of the wraparound porch

Honoring the 2020 graduating class of Kennett Square? (KSS)

401 S Union St/Catherine Reed House (1890) is a double two-bay
house having turned posts with solid brackets on the porch

316 S Union St/Kirk House (1873) has a wraparound porch

341 S Union St/Lamborn House (1880) has stucco over the
original brick and at least two ocular windows (KSS)

306 S Union St/Philips-Grason House
has a tower with a conical slate roof

231 S Union St/Lydia Walton House (1860),
a traditional Penn Plan house originally made
by William Penn to provide good ventilation

The traditional Penn Plan House has three rooms on the first floor with a two-bay hall or common room in front and two smaller rooms in the back.

221 S Union St/Dr Sumner Stebbins House
(1845, porch and back addition 1855)

Dr Sumner Stebbins House detail of chamfered/beveled posts
with brackets on the porch (KSS)

222 S Union St/Cypress Lawn/Samuel Pennock House (1864)

Samuel Pennock, founder of the American Road Machine Company and inventor of the snow plow and various road grading machines.

208 S Union St/Pyle House (c 1907) with an octagonal tower

209-211 S Union St/Samuel Martin House (1870) with a root cellar
rumored to have been a part of the Underground Railroad

204 S Union St/Entrikin House (c 1907, in Queen Anne style)
has a hexagonal dormer with peaked roof

Here in 1777, the British and Hessian troops
gathered to march east, only to end up in the
Battle of the Brandywine; now on the site of the
Unicorn Tavern, a tower holds three faces of
the Kennett Town Clock (1905)

200 N Union St/Miller-Hannum House (1841,
in Federal style) has a dormer with an arched roof (KSS)

220 N Union St/Chalfant Mansion (1884, designed by the firm
of Frank Furness, in Queen Anne style) is the definitive WOW
factor in the Kennett Square Walking Tour; note the corbeled
brickwork on the chimneys (we counted four chimneys)

Another view of Chalfant Mansion

233 N Union St/M Ellen Taylor House (1876 in Queen Anne
Stick style) with fishscale shingles on the cross gable

315 N Union St/Fairthorn/Joshua Taylor House (1790)
is the oldest house in the historic district

Fairthorn was the home of Bayard Taylor's grandparents and was the setting for his novel The Story of Kennett (1866).

234 N Union St/Robinhurst/Gilmore-Marshall-Pennock House
(1859, in Federal style for John Gilmore, the Presbyterian minister)

The residence was named Robinhurst by Charles Pennock, a local banker and an ornithologist. He was an eccentric who suffered amnesia, disappeared, and resurfaced in Florida under an assumed name. He eventually returned to Kennett Square.

On our way home another stop in Chadds Ford, PA.

Barns-Brinton House (1714, to be used as a residence and tavern
by blacksmith William Barns) features Flemish bond brickwork