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Square Tavern
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Square Tavern, November 2015
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Location	Newtown Street Rd. and Goshen Rd., Newtown Township, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Coordinates	39°59′46″N 75°24′30″W / 39.99611°N 75.40833°W / 39.99611; -75.40833
Area	3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built	1742
Built by	Elliot, Francis
NRHP reference No.	84003353^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 7, 1984

The Square Tavern, also known as the John West House, The Square, and the Newtown Square Tavern, is an historic, American tavern that is located Newtown Township, Pennsylvania. It was the boyhood home of painter Benjamin West,^[2] known for his work depicting events of 18th century American history.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.^[1]

History and architectural features

The original section of this historic structure was completed in 1742 and is a two-and-one-half-story, rectangular, gable-roofed, brick building that measures thirty-two feet wide and twenty-eight feet deep. A small two-story kitchen addition was built sometime before 1798, and was later replaced with a two-story wing. That wing was removed during a 1981 restoration, which returned the building to its 1742 appearance.

The building serves as a museum and home to the Delaware County Tourist Bureau.^[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.^[1]

Gallery

View from the southeast
View from the south
View from the southwest
View from the northwest

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Newtown Square Historical Society
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes John D. Milner (July 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Square Tavern" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-11.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Square Tavern (Pennsylvania).

"Square Tavern" at Newtown Square Historical Society

Benjamin West

Paintings

General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian (1764–1768)
Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus (1768)
The Departure of Regulus (1769)
The Death of General Wolfe (1770)
Penn's Treaty with the Indians (1771–1772)
Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill) (1776)
Fidelia and Speranza (1776)
The Battle of the Boyne (1778)
The Battle of La Hogue (1778)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783 (1783–1811; lost)
Portrait of Dr Richard Price (1784)
Edward III Crossing the Somme (1788)
Queen Philippa at the Battle of Neville's Cross (1789)
Death on the Pale Horse (1796, 1817)
The Death of Nelson (1806)
Portrait of Robert Fulton (1806)
Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (c. 1816)

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