National Historic Landmark - Merion Golf Club

National Historic Landmark - Merion Golf Club

Merion Golf Club's East and West courses (1911 & 1914, respectively) were among the first in this country to incorporate a combination "penal" and "strategic" design, which is less punishing to the common ...

National Historic Landmark - Merion Friends Meeting House

National Historic Landmark - Merion Friends Meeting House

Merion Friends Meeting House is the building most closely associated with the Merioneth Adventurers, a group of Welsh Quakers who came to Pennsylvania in 1682.

The earliest known migration of Celtic-speaking Welsh ...

National Historic Landmark - Meadowcroft Rockshelter

National Historic Landmark - Meadowcroft Rockshelter

This site contains evidence of some of the earliest human occupations in Eastern North America. Meadowcroft Rockshelter demonstrates that humans have been in the Americas since at least 16,000 years before the present. ...

National Historic Landmark- Lightfoot Mill

National Historic Landmark- Lightfoot Mill

Lightfoot Mill represents an extremely rare archetypal example of a small, eighteenth century custom grain mill with its surviving, completely intact, power transmission system. Surveys suggest that no other custom mills in the United States survive ...

National Historic Landmark-Julius F. LeMoyne House

National Historic Landmark- Julius F. LeMoyne House

The LeMoyne House was built in 1812, and was a center of antislavery activity in southwestern Pennsylvania from the 1830s through the end of slavery.

In 1834, LeMoyne joined the Washington Anti-Slavery Society ...

National Historic Landmark-Insurance Company of North America

National Historic Landmark-Insurance Company of North America

Since 1925, this 16 story, steel frame, brick and stone structure has been the home of the oldest capital stock insurance company in America. Incorporated in 1794, INA pioneered many forms of insurance, in ...

National Historic Landmark - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper House

National Historic Landmark - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper House

From 1870 to her death, this was the home of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911), a Black writer and social activist who participated in the abolitionist, black rights, women's suffrage, and ...

National Historic Landmark-Furness Library

National Historical Landmark- Furness Library, School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania

Completed in 1890, this is a major work by an important late-19th-century architect, Frank Furness (1839-1912).

The red-brick Gothic style structure has Romanesque elements and distinctive, monumental foliate detailing; ...

National Historic Landmark-Robert Fulton Birthplace

National Historical Landmark- Robert Fulton Birthplace

This stone house was the birthplace of Robert Fulton (1765-1815), artist, civil engineer, and inventor.

Fulton worked on the development of canal systems and engineering; he is perhaps best remembered for designing the CLERMONT, ...

National Historic Landmark-Fulton Opera House

National Historical Landmark-Fulton Opera House

This early Victorian structure was built (1852) to serve several civic purposes.

It was named in honor of Robert Fulton, co-inventor of the steamboat, and a native of the county. It remains the oldest continuously ...