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The Main House

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c. 1840. Art School and Yellow Springs rds.

The house is generally Georgian in proportion, but the Gothic-styled window in the gable suggests an urban sophistication. Other structures include a nineteenth-century cast-iron gazebo, and other ancillary structures.

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Author: 
George E. Thomas
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George E. Thomas, "The Main House", [Chester Springs, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-02-CH33.3.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 2

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, George E. Thomas, with Patricia Likos Ricci, Richard J. Webster, Lawrence M. Newman, Robert Janosov, and Bruce Thomas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 253-253.

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