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Benjamin Rush House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Benjamin Rush House, January 2011
Location	Boot Rd., West Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania
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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