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Selma Mansion is one of the oldest structures in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Located on the western edge of the town, Selma was built by General Andrew Porter in 1794 around an existing structure purchased from Alexander McCammon in 1786.
Oct 25, 2021 · Dating back to 1794, Norristown’s Selma Mansion captivates patrons of preservation and the paranormal in the Philadelphia suburbs. When someone backed out of Selma Mansion’s 2019 Psychic Fair, it left an opening in the late Mrs. Ruth Ryder Fornance’s bedroom on the third floor.
The Norristown Preservation Society is dedicated to the preservation, celebration and promotion of historic Selma Mansion, its residents and the history and preservation of the the legacy of the Montgomery County seat.
While standing on the third floor of Norristown’s historic Selma Mansion, with the wallpaper of what used to be a child’s room peeling around you and the floorboards squeaking beneath your...
Sep 30, 2015 · The Spirits of Selma Mansion. By Lower Bucks Times. September 30, 2015. The last person to live in the Selma Mansion died in the mid-1980s. Ruth Fornance’s passing marked the first vacancy in the Norristown estate since its construction in 1794. Some claim she never really left.
Norristown Preservation Society / Selma Mansion, Norristown, Pennsylvania. 1,873 likes · 10 talking about this · 2,114 were here. NPS was created to help save and restore Selma Mansion, and to...
Selma Mansion, built in 1794 was home to General Andrew Porter and his family. Andrew Porter was a captain of marines in the Revolutionary War, later a Brigadier General in the Pennsylvania militia, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania and Great Grandfather to Mary Todd Lincoln.
