Historic RittenhouseTown
About Historic RittenhouseTown
Historic RittenhouseTown, sometimes referred to as Rittenhouse Historic District, encompasses the remains of an early industrial community which was the site of the first paper mill in British North America. The mill was built in 1690 by William Rittenhouse and his son Nicholas on the north bank of Paper Mill Run (Monoshone Creek) near (and now within) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The district, off Lincoln Drive near Wissahickon Avenue in Fairmount Park, includes six of up to forty-five original buildings. RittenhouseTown was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated a National Historic Landmark District on April 27, 1992.
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01PhiladelphiaGraydon Wood, HABS photographer · Public domain
02Claus Rittenhouse Home, Outbuilding, 207A Lincoln Drive, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia (Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania)Graydon Wood, Photographer, · Public domain
03Bake House at Historic RittenhouseTownArwilson1128 · CC BY-SA 4.0
04Bake House, RittenhousetownJMMinardi · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Nearby museums
Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 1.2 miles of Historic RittenhouseTown; the closest, Paley Design Center, is about a mile away.
