Pennsbury Manor was built for William Penn as his country estate. The original buildings eventually fell into total disrepair, so this reconstruction was made in the 1930s.

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The front facade faces the Delaware River, because that was the way it was originally approached. The few roads at the time were pretty rough. On the right is the view out the open front door, down the brick path, to the River.

Photos by MJP Grundy, 6/1987.
 

The Buck Hotel, formerly called Buck Tavern, in Feasterville. At the time of the Revolution it was owned by Phineas Paxson.

The Buck is still a restaurant but has been so added to and modified that it is hard to see the original building from the outside.

Drawing is from the Bucks County Cook Book.

   

Bucks County Record Office (in use before 1776), in Trevose. I have no idea if it still exists, but I have my doubts.

Photograph by Aaron Siskind, ca. 1935, printed in William Morgan, Bucks County: Photographs of Early Architecture by Aaron Siskind (Bucks County Historical Society, 1974), 95.

Farmers' National Bank in Bristol, housed in this handsome 1819 Greek revival building, originally constructed as a private residence.

Photograph by Aaron Siskind, ca. 1935, printed in William Morgan, Bucks County: Photographs of Early Architecture by Aaron Siskind (Bucks County Historical Society, 1974), 31.
 

Washington's Crossing was named for the place from which George Washington embarked his troops to cross the Delaware on Christmas night, 1776, for the surprise attack on British and Hessian troops in Trenton. There was a ferry crossing here from about 1700. Today there is a park on both sides of the River. In Bucks County the 500 acre park includes 13 historic buildings.

Washington Crossing Historic Park, Pennsylvania. [Photos by MJP Grundy, 14/10m/1989]

a few old Bucks County Schools

Green Hill School in Solebury

The Wrightstown "Eight-sided" School

The photo of the "old 8-square" Wrightstown school is by Aaron Siskind, taken in the 1930s. [printed in Bucks County: Photographs of Early Architecture by Aaron Siskind, text by William Morgan (Bucks County Historical Society, 1974), 72.

Middletown Meeting School in Attleboro (now Langhorne). No longer used as a school building.

Photo by MJP Grundy, 1978.
 
 

George School, just south of newtown, was established in 1893 as a boarding school for Hicksite high school boys and girls. The large building with two wings and a center section is Main, the girls' dorm, and for many years the dining hall and administration offices. Next and slightly behind is Drayton, traditionally the junior and senior boys' dorm. On the right is Retford, the old science and math classroom building.

Detail from a post card.








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