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Aces Museum

Aces Museum

The ACES Museum is home to Parker Hall, an entertainment venue for Black soldiers during World War II. Today, the museum honors minority veterans through exhibits and programs.

Visit acesmuseum.org ›

Awbury Arboretum

Awbury Arboretum

Awbury Arboretum preserves and interprets the Quaker heritage of The Francis Cope House and the surrounding 55-acre landscape connecting an urban community with nature and history.

Visit awbury.org ›

Cliveden Upsala

Cliveden/Upsala

Cliveden's 1767 mansion and grounds preserve the site of the 1777 Battle of Germantown and offer a wondrous lens into the community’s rich, diverse history.

Visit cliveden.org ›

Concord School

Concord school/upper Burying ground

The Concord Schoolhouse (1775) and the adjoining Upper Burying Ground (1693) stand as silent witnesses to the enduring struggle for freedom and independence in Germantown.

 

Deshler Morris House

Deshler-Morris House

The Germantown White House (Deshler-Morris) served as a refuge from the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic for President George Washington, then as a pleasant country retreat for the First Family the following summer. Visit nps.gov/demo ›

Ebenezer Maxwell House

Ebenezer Maxwell House

The Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion is Philadelphia’s only authentically restored Victorian house museum and garden - a living record of life during the Industrial Revolution.

Visit ebenezermaxwellmansion.org ›

Germantown Mennonite

Germantown Mennonite Historic Trust

Germantown, the first permanent settlement of Mennonites in America, features this 1770 meetinghouse. It houses the table where the first protest against slavery in America was signed. Visit germantownmht.mennonite.net ›

Germantown Historical Society

Germantown Historical Society

GHS ensures that the history, artifacts and publications related to the Germantown section of Philadelphia are collected and interpreted for visitors and researchers.

Visit germantownhistory.org ›

Grumblethorpe

Grumblethorpe

Grumblethorpe, a 1744 Colonial German farmstead with Revolutionary War significance, features period furnishings and an extensive two-acre garden. Visit philalandmarks.org ›

Historic Rittenhouse

Historic Rittenhouse Town

Historic RittenhouseTown, a National Historic Landmark District located in Fairmount Park, is the site of British North America's first paper mill built by the Rittenhouse family in 1690.

Visit rittenhousetown.org ›

Johnson House

Johnson House

The Johnson House, built in 1768, was home to three generations of abolitionist Quakers and is one of the few remaining Underground Railroad Stations in Philadelphia open to the public.

Visit Johnsonhouse.org ›

Lasalle Art Museum

LaSalle Art Museum

La Salle University Art Museum houses over 4,000 objects and provides a survey of Western art from the fifteenth century to the present. Smaller collections of Japanese prints, Indian miniatures, Pre-Colombian ceramics and African sculpture. Visit lasalle.edu/museum/ ›

Stenton

Stenton

Stenton is the c.1730 country house of William Penn's Secretary, James Logan, one of the central figures in colonial Pennsylvania history. Through the story of Logan, Stenton interprets life in the early 18th century. Visit stenton.org ›

Wyck

Wyck

Wyck, through the historic house, its contents, landscape and gardens, tells the story of the Quaker Wistar-Haines family who owned the property from 1689-1973.

Visit wyck.org ›

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