Northeast Delaware County, PA (9/2/2023)

Saturday, September 2, 2023 (continued)

We still have a few more historic properties to see in our area of Pennsylvania, and tried to cross a few off the list during our trip to the Wharton Esherick Museum.

Oops, we had already visited the Bartram Covered Bridge
(1860, restored 1970) in Newtown Square, a Burr truss bridge
that is the only covered bridge in Pennsylvania
with slanted boards at the entrances

Olde Covered Wagon Inn (c 1780)

Olde Covered Wagon Inn in Wayne, PA

Hope's Cookies and Snap Pizza in a 1930 service station
at 1125 Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA

La Colombe Coffee Roasters in the 1920s
Bryn Mawr Garage at 915 Lancaster Avenue

The Pullman Restaurant in the 1869 Bryn Mawr Train
Station, repurposed in 1963 as the Pennsylvania Railroad
freight and baggage depot, at 39 Morris Avenue

Connections were made between the Esherick Workshop
designed with Louis I Kahn, and the Bryn Mawr College
building also designed by Kahn and Tyng; Erdman Hall
(1965) is a series of three cubes connected at the corners

Bryn Mawr Hospital Thrift Shop (1929) in the 1860 Whitehall
Station for the PRR, the oldest station on the Main Line;
the Abraham Lincoln funeral train stopped here for ice
and water in 1865, and beginning in 1893 the building
served as the isolation unit for Bryn Mawr Hospital

Llanerch School (1912-1913) has been renovated
as apartments in Havertown, PA

Thomas Massey House (1696 in brick, 1731 a log house was
replaced with stone section, 1780 stone kitchen with an 1860
second story, no info on the wood frame section); Massey
was an English indentured servant who became a landowner

Also in Broomall, PA is the Beth El - Ner Tamid (c 1950)

Collen Brook Farm of the Upper Darby
Historical Society

Collen Brook Farm Farmhouse (c 1700, additions
in 1774, 1794) was the home of Dr George Smith, a
doctor, judge, scientist, historian, who as State Senator
drafted Pennsylvania's first public school code (1836)

Collen Brook Farm Carriage House (c 1870)