National Historic Landmark-Edward Drinker Cope House

National Historic Landmark-Edward Drinker Cope House

From 1880 until his death, this was the residence of Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897), one of America's most prolific and creative 19th-century geologists and paleontologists.

He wrote some 1,300 titles, and his entry in the National Academy of Science's Bibliographical Memoir Series runs to 60 pages.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historic Landmarks

Image courtesy Library of Congress Historic American Building Survey