Richard Wall house
The Richard Wall house is a historic home in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, built in 1682. It was owned by the Wall family for 165 years. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as Wall House and is also sometimes referred to as The Ivy.Photo: Ike9898, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Ike9898, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: historic house turned museum in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States
- Also known as: “Richard Wall House”, “Richard Wall House Museum”, “The Ivy”, and “Wall House”
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Beth Sholom Synagogue and Elkins Park station.
Beth Sholom Synagogue
Synagogue
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Beth Sholom Synagogue is a Conservative Jewish synagogue at 8231 Old York Road in Elkins Park, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The main synagogue building, completed in 1959, was the only Jewish house of worship designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; it consists of a hexagonal base topped by a tetrahedron-shaped pyramidal roof. Beth Sholom Synagogue is situated 1,400 feet northeast of Richard Wall house.
Elkins Park station
Railway station
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Elkins Park station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station located in the Elkins Park neighborhood of Cheltenham Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Elkins Park station is situated 2,700 feet south of Richard Wall house.
Lynnewood Hall
Manor estate
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Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Neoclassical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. It was designed by the architect Horace Trumbauer for the industrialist Peter A. Lynnewood Hall is situated 3,400 feet west of Richard Wall house.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elkins Park and McKinley.
Elkins Park
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Elkins Park is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is split between Cheltenham and Abington Townships in the northern suburbs outside of Philadelphia, which it borders along Cheltenham Avenue roughly 7 miles from Center City.
McKinley
Hamlet
McKinley is a census-designated place, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. Almost all of it is in Abington Township, while some blocks are in Cheltenham Township.
La Mott
Hamlet
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La Mott is an unincorporated community located within Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, United States. Its name honors the leading 19th Century abolitionist and suffragist, Lucretia Mott, who resided in the neighborhood.
Richard Wall house
- Categories: house, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Montgomery County, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.07853° or 40° 4′ 43″ northLongitude
-75.12854° or 75° 7′ 43″ westOpen location code
87G63VHC+CHOpenStreetMap ID
way 582575625OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q7962600
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In Other Languages
“Richard Wall house” goes by many names.
- French: “maison Richard Wall”
- French: “Maison Richard Wall”
- French: “maison Wall”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Wall Park and Elkins Park Post Office.
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