Following is a list of historic houses and sites in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia (almost all part of Historic Germantown).
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Cliveden (Benjamin Chew House)
6401 Germantown Avenue
- Historic house museum.
- Built 1763-67.
“Preserves and interprets over 200 years of American history through the lives of the Chew Family and their staff, both enslaved and in service”
Concord School House and Upper Burying Ground of Germantown
6309 Germantown Avenue
- Historic site and cemetery.
- Cemetery established 1693; schoolhouse built 1775.
“Intact 19th-century schoolroom”
Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion
200 W. Tulpehocken Street
- Historic house museum.
- Built 1859.
“Philadelphia’s only authentically restored Victorian house museum”
Germantown White House (Deshler-Morris House; Independence National Historical Park)
5442 Germantown Avenue
- Historic house museum.
- Dating to 1752.
“Home to President Washington during the yellow fever epidemic”
Grumblethorpe House & Gardens
5267 Germantown Avenue
- Historic house museum.
- Built 1744.
“Horticultural Magnificence. Scientific Curiosity”
Historic Rittenhouse Town
6034 Wissahickon Avenue
- Historic site/houses/museum.
- Built 1690-1732.
“Early industrial community [where] the first paper mill in America was built”
Johnson House Historic Site
6306 Germantown Avenue
- Historic house museum.
- Built 1768.
“One of Philadelphia’s few accessible, intact historic sites and stops on the Underground Railroad open for tours”
Stenton (James Logan Home)
4601 North 18th Street
- Historic house museum.
- Built 1723-30.
“One of the earliest, best-preserved, and most authentic historic houses in Philadelphia”
Wyck Historic House, Garden & Farm (Haines/Hans Millan house)
6026 Germantown Avenue
- Historic house museum, garden and farm.
- Dating to 1690.
“Served as the ancestral home to one Philadelphia family for nine generations”