The Solitude

Overview

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Site Owner(s): John Penn
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Location: Philadelphia, PA
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History

Texts

Washington, George, July 19, 1787, diary entry describing The Solitude, estate of John Penn, near Philadelphia, Pa.^[1]

"Dined (after coming out of Convention)at Mr. John Penn the youngers. Drank Tea & spent the evening at my lodgings."

Fig. x, William Russell Birch, ""Solitude in Pennsylv.^a belonging to M.^r Penn," in The Country Seats of the United States (1808), pl. 9.

Birch, William Russell, 1808, The Country Seats of the United States of North America (1808: unpaginated)^[2]

"Here a pleasing solitude at once speaks the propriety of its title. Upon further research the solitary rocks, and the waters of the Schuylkill add sublimity to quietness. The house is built with great taste for a bachelor, by the former Governor John Penn, since the revolution."

Images

John Nancarrow, "Plan of the Seat of John Penn, jun'r: Esqr: in Blockley Township and County of Philadelphia," 1790.
William Russell Birch, "Solitude in Pennsylv.^a belonging to M.^r Penn," in The Country Seats of the United States (1808), pl. 9.

Other Resources

The Solitude - Philadelphia Zoo

Notes

↑ Washington Papers, Founders Online, National Archives.
↑ William Russell Birch, The Country Seats of the United States, ed. by Emily T. Cooperman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), 58, view on Zotero.

[1] Washington Papers, Founders Online, National Archives.

[2] William Russell Birch, The Country Seats of the United States, ed. by Emily T. Cooperman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), 58, view on Zotero.

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