Benjamin Rush House facts for kids
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Benjamin Rush House
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Benjamin Rush House, January 2011
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Location | Boot Rd., West Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania |
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Area | 1.4 acres (0.57 ha) |
Built | 1908 |
Architect | George Bispham Page |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Other, Georgian Revival |
MPS | West Whiteland Township MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 84003300 |
Added to NRHP | August 2, 1984 |
Benjamin Rush House, also known as Chesteridge, is a historic home located in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1908 as a summer home for an insurance company president named Benjamin Rush. It is a 2 1⁄2-story, six-bay dwelling built of green serpentine stone and fieldstone in the Georgian Revival style. It has a 1 1⁄2-story service wing and a 2-story library wing, added in 1928.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
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