Fox Chase Farm
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Fox Chase Farm, as seen from Pine Road
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| Location: | 8500 Pine Rd., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates: | 40°5′26″N 75°4′31″W / 40.09056°N 75.07528°WCoordinates: 40°5′26″N 75°4′31″W / 40.09056°N 75.07528°W |
| Built: | 1822 |
| Architect: | Glancy, Irvin |
| Architectural style: | Federal, Stick/Eastlake, et al. |
| Governing body: | School District of Philadelphia |
| NRHP Reference#: | 05000415[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | May 10, 2005 |
Fox Chase Farm is one of two working farms in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (W.B. Saul High School’s Farm in Roxborough is the other). Formerly owned by the Wistar family, the farm is located on Pine Road in the Fox Chase neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia on the border with Montgomery County. The farm gradually became surrounded by the city's residential neighborhoods and was purchased by the city in 1975. It is now run as an educational farm by the School District of Philadelphia.
The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 under its old name of Stanley, a name it acquired when William Penn granted the land to Lord Stanley.
[edit] References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
[edit] External links
- Friends of Fox Chase Farm
- Listing at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
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Categories:
- Historic districts in Pennsylvania
- Education in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Queen Anne architecture in Pennsylvania
- Federal architecture in Pennsylvania
- Buildings and structures completed in 1822
- Municipal parks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Buildings and structures in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
