Benjamin Rush House


Benjamin Rush House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Benjamin Rush House, January 2011
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Location	Boot Rd., West Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°0′32″N 75°36′17″W / 40.00889°N 75.60472°W / 40.00889; -75.60472Coordinates: 40°0′32″N 75°36′17″W / 40.00889°N 75.60472°W / 40.00889; -75.60472
Area	1.4 acres (0.57 ha)
Built	1908
Architect	George Bispham Page
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Other, Georgian Revival
MPS	West Whiteland Township MRA
NRHP Reference #	84003300^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 2, 1984

Benjamin Rush House, also known as Chesteridge, is a historic home located in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1908 as a summer home for an insurance company president named Benjamin Rush. It is a 2 ¹⁄₂-story, six-bay dwelling built of green serpentine stone and fieldstone in the Georgian Revival style. It has a 1 ¹⁄₂-story service wing and a 2-story library wing, added in 1928.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). ARCH: Pennsylvania's Historic Architecture & Archaeology. Retrieved 2012-11-02. Note: This includes M. L. Wolf and Brandywine Cons. (December 1981). "Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form: Benjamin Rush House" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-11-05.

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