3-678: 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 . Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, it is a contributing property of the Colonial Germantown Historic District , which has been designated as a National Historic Landmark . Built sometime around 1744, this structure
6-542: A National Historic Landmark , the Grumblethorpe Tenant House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Wister, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wister is a neighborhood in Northwest Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States. It is bounded by Chelten Avenue to the north, Germantown Avenue to the west, Belfield Avenue to the east, and Wister Street to the south. Wister
9-402: 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 to John Wister's summer home, Grumblethorpe . A contributing property of the Colonial Germantown Historic District , which has been designated as
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