National Historic Landmark -Mill Grove

National Historic Landmark -Mill Grove (John James Audubon House)

John James Audubon (1785-1851), famous American naturalist and artist, lived in this 2 1/2 story fieldstone farm house from 1804 to 1808.

It was here Audubon made his earliest observations of ...

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 - Merion Cricket Club

National Historic Landmark - Merion Cricket Club

Founded in 1865 and at this site since 1892, Merion Cricket Club is among the handful of U.S. properties that illustrate the history of cricket, which was a major sport in the 19th century, ...

National Historic Landmark - Merchants' Exchange Building

National Historic Landmark - Merchants' Exchange Building

The Philadelphia Merchants' Exchange Building is nationally significant for its architectural design.

This monumental office building was designed by William Strickland (1788-1854) in 1831, and is an exquisite expression of the Greek Revival style. ...

National Historic Landmark - Memorial Hall

National Historic Landmark - Memorial Hall

The only large building remaining from the 1876 Centennial Exposition, Memorial Hall served as art gallery for this successful world's fair.

The first American art museum in the Beaux-Arts manner, it was designed by Herman ...

National Historic Landmark -Isaac Meason House

National Historic Landmark -Isaac Meason House

Built in 1802 for ironmaster Isaac Meason, this substantial 2 1/2 story ashlar sandstone house is the most sophisticated English Palladian villa-type building in the region from this early period.

Meason brough craftsman and architect ...

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 - Humphry Marshall House

National Historic Landmark - Humphry Marshall House

Constructed in 1773-74 and enlarged in 1801, this two-and-a-half story house was the home of Humphrey Marshall (1722-1801), American botanist and author of ARBUSTUM AMERICANUM, the first account of forest trees and shrubs native ...

National Historic Landmark - Lukens Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Lukens Historic District

This district is associated with Rebecca Lukens (1794-1854), who played a leading role in the 19th-century American iron industry, and her family legacy.

The firm she owned and managed--Brandywine Ironworks (later Lukens Steel Company)--was ...