National Historic Landmark-Terence Vincent Powderly House

National Historic Landmark-Terence Vincent Powderly House

This was the long-time home of Terence Vincent Powderly (1849-1924), who from 1879 to 1893 was the head of the Knights of Labor, an early national labor organization.

The Knights flourished under his leadership for ...

National Historic Landmark-Edgar Allan Poe House

National Historic Landmark- Edgar Allen Poe House

From 1842 to 1844, this was the home of Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849). Poe wrote some of his best-known short stories in this small brick cottage. In 1978, this became the Edgar Allan Poe ...

National Historic Landmark- Charles Willson Peale, House

National Historic Landmark- Charles Willson Peale, House

From 1810 to 1820, this was the home of Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), the country's preeminent painter during its early national period.

Peale, remembered for his miniatures and portraits of notable Americans, painted seven likenesses ...

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 -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 - 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-J. Peter Lesley House

National Historic Landmark- J. Peter Lesley House

From 1869 until 1896, this was the residence and office of J. Peter Lesley (1819-1903), one of America's foremost geologists of that day.

Mr. Lesley served as Geologist for the State of Pennsylvania and ...

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-Johnson House

National Historic Landmark-Johnson House

Philadelphia was a center of the nineteenth-century American movement to abolish slavery, and the Johnson House was one of the important stations on the Underground Railroad that helped lead so many to freedom.

From 1770 to 1908, ...

National Historic Landmark - Johnson House

National Historic Landmark - The Johnson House

Philadelphia was a center of the nineteenth-century American movement to abolish slavery, and the Johnson House was one of the important stations on the Underground Railroad that helped lead so many to freedom. ...