Grumblethorpe Tenant House

Coordinates: 40°1′56″N 75°10′8″W / 40.03222°N 75.16889°W

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Grumblethorpe Tenant House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Grumblethorpe Tenant House, March 2010
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Location	5269 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°1′56″N 75°10′8″W / 40.03222°N 75.16889°W / 40.03222; -75.16889
Area	less than one acre
Built	c. 1744
NRHP reference No.	72001156^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 19, 1972

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,^[1] it is a contributing property of the Colonial Germantown Historic District, which has been designated as a National Historic Landmark.

History and architectural features

Built sometime around 1744, this structure 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^{[clarification needed]} to John Wister's summer home, Grumblethorpe.^[2]

A contributing property of the Colonial Germantown Historic District, which has been designated as a National Historic Landmark, the Grumblethorpe Tenant House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2012-07-04. Note: This includes Fran Deutsch (January 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Grumblethorpe Tenant House" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-07-03.

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