The Solitude

Designed and built in 1784 as a riverside villa by John Penn, Jr., it served as a model for country houses of the Federal period (c. 1775 – 1830). Administered by the Philadelphia Zoo since 1874, the original Adam Style ...

Solitude

Solitude House Museum

Patriots imprisoned loyalist Pennsylvania Governor John Penn and Crown Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Chew here during the Revolutionary War. They named the place “Solitude.”

Marker is on River Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Lake Solitude and Taylor Falls

Tayor Steelworkers Historic Greenway

The Union Forge Heritage Association welcomes you to Lake Solitude and Taylor Falls

With the depletion of natural resources that provided energy to power the adjacent Iron Works, Lake Solitude was constructed by the Taylor Iron and Steel ...

Solitude House

Taylor Steelworkers Historic Greenway

The Union Forge Heritage Association welcomes you to Solitude House

Solitude House started life as a classic Germanic style stone home in 1712 and was part of a 10,000 acre parcel of land that came to be ...

Solitude

Solitude House Museum

Patriots imprisoned loyalist Pennsylvania Governor John Penn and Crown Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Chew here during the Revolutionary War. They named the place “Solitude.”

Marker is on River Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org