Name/Title
The WissahickonEntry/Object ID
2013.34.3.81Description
The Edwin C. Jellett Series of Scrapbooks, Volume 3 -The Wissahickon
Page 81 contains a newspaper clipping entitled "Rittenhouse Site, Held Since 1703, Now In New Hands." The article relates the sale of the old Rittenhouse residence on Wissahickon Avenue, marking the first transfer of the property from the heirs of the original owners since it was buit 220 years ago. The original Rittenhouse estate comprised over 200 acres and has now been absorbed into Fairmount Park. The article details the history and genealogy of the property to the present day (1926).Collection
GHS Scrapbook CollectionMade/Created
Date made
1900 - 1910Notes
Creation Date: Jan. 1926