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Sep 2016 • Solo. Harriton House is a remarkably well-preserved Colonial-period estate, with splendid architecture and replete with historical associations. Well-preserved and sited in an ideal location on Pennsylvania's Main Line, you can walk through the atmosphere of a our earliest era, among period furnishings and authentic décor.
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Harriton House, A Brief History • The Bryn Mawr 100 • Bryn Mawr, PA 19010. Harriton House – founded 1704. Harriton House c. 1890. 500 Harriton Road. In the mid-1680's Welsh Quaker Rowland Ellis built a small house and cultivated wheat, oats and Indian corn on 15 of the nearly 700 acre piece of land he received from William Penn.
The house we know as Harriton was built by Welsh Quaker Rowland Ellis (1650-1731) in 1704 and called Bryn Mawr (meaning “high hill”) after Ellis’ ancestral farmstead in Wales. The three story, T-shaped stone house with its flaring eaves and tall brick chimneys is a unique survivor of substantial early domestic architecture in southeastern ...
Harriton Historic House and Park, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. 972 likes · 1 talking about this. Tours by appointment call before visiting Harriton House. Admission $10 adults, $8 seniors/students
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History. Harriton House was originally called Bryn Mawr when it was erected in 1704 by farmer Rowland Ellis. Ellis had already been farming the land, which he had acquired from William Penn in the 1680s, for 20 years before building his stately home. In 1719, the property was purchased by Richard Harrison, who changed the name of the property ...
The truth is less thrilling: it was a name given by Welsh Quaker Rowland Ellis in 1704 to the estate now known as Harriton House. And if there were fewer trees today around the house it would be possible to actually see the hill, rather than merely feel it. He actually named his new estate after his ancestral farmstead, Bryn Mawr Farm.
Jun 9, 2015 · Harriton House, Bryn Mawr, PA | Photo credit: Monica Mercado SO THE STORY GOES, according to Barbara Alyce Farrow’s book, The History of Bryn Mawr, 1683-1900 . 3 Harriton House abounds with similar tales.
