Awbury Historic District - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Awbury Historic District - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Awbury Historic District is a historic area in the East Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Cooperman, Emily T. and Cory Kegerise. "Historic Districts in Philadelphia: An assessment of existing information and recommendations for future action." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Prepared by the Cultural Resource Consulting Group for the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, January 9, 2007, pp. 12, 42, 47, and 50."National Register of Historic Places," in "State Program News: Bureau for Historic Preservation, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission," in Preserving Pennsylvania: The Newsletter of Preservation Pennsylvania, Inc. , Vol. 15, No. 1-2, Winter 2000, p. 5. It encompasses the former summer homes and farms of the extended Cope family, who moved to the area starting in 1849 and the entire Awbury Arboretum, which occupies most of the district's area, as well as adjacent properties developed and occupied by Henry Cope (1793-1865), son and successor to prominent Philadelphia Orthodox Quaker merchant Thomas Pym Cope (1768-1854), his close relatives, and his descendants. The district, which has been described by Philadelphia area historians as "visually distinct from the densely-built urban blocks that surround it on three sides, and from the level, open landscape of the city park to the northwest," features buildings which were designed in the Gothic Revival, Italian Villa, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, Shingle, and Colonial Revival styles of architecture between 1849 and 1922. Read more on Wikipedia
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