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Grumblethorpe Tenant House

Historic house in Pennsylvania, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Grumblethorpe Tenant House, also known as the Tenant House of Wister's Big House, is an historic home which is located in the Wister neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972,[1] it is a contributing property of the Colonial Germantown Historic District, which has been designated as a National Historic Landmark.

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History and architectural features

Built sometime around 1744, this structure was expanded during the early nineteenth century. Now a two-and-one-half-story, thirty-one-square-foot stone dwelling, the original house was a one-story structure that was nineteen feet wide by twenty-eight feet deep that was created as a dependency[clarification needed] to John Wister's summer home, Grumblethorpe.[2]

A contributing property of the Colonial Germantown Historic District, which has been designated as a National Historic Landmark, the Grumblethorpe Tenant House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[1]

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