2/11/2024 0 Comments Haverford township building![]() The mansion, built of New Jersey sandstone covered with stucco, featured 55 rooms (each with a fireplace), hand-carved stone columns and mantels, carved paneling, Mercer tiles, and bronze radiator grills with scenes of the property. It is considered one of the outstanding Delaware County properties of the 20th century, with circular driveway, lily pond, pool, terraced formal gardens, a depressed circular “Iris Bowl” (containing hundreds of varieties and a gazebo), pump house, stable, sheep meadow, rustic log cabin and swimming hole, as well as servant housing and outbuilding complex. had architect William Eyre design the mansion for his 26.6 acre, 1911 Allgates country estate in Haverford Township. Physical Address: 15 Coopertown Road, Haverford PAĭescription and History: Banker and financier Horatio Gates Lloyd, Sr. Allgates is the first house, set well back, on the left side. Make right onto Blakely Road and proceed to end, make left onto Coopertown Road, then make right through gateway opening of high wall into former Allgates estate. The historical society puts on a "day in the life" show for the township's fifth graders.Directions from Previous Site: Continue up Tunbridge Road, cross College Avenue and go one block further. The building's main use is for school and group field trips. Nitre Hall is open to the public May through October, in December for special events, and by appointment for a nominal admission charge, according to the Haverford Township Historical Society. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is situated near Lawrence Cabin, another historic building. The top floor contains various temporary exhibits and the educational Colonial Living Experience. With the ground floor reserved for custodians, the upper two floors are decorated in Empire and Victorian style. ![]() History and architectural features īuilt shortly after 1800 on the banks of Cobbs Creek, by Israel Whelen, Jr., the hall was the residence of the master of the Nitre Hall Powder Mills, which has long since been torn down. ![]() Nitre Hall is a nineteenth-century, American building that is located in Haverford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. ![]()
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