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| Keywords: Rittenhouse homestead.jpg Claus Rittenhouse House w RittenhouseTown Historic District Rittenhouse homestead Lincoln Drive Rittenhouse Street Philadelphia PA<br> Building/structure dates 1707 initial construction Significance The building is one of the earliest surviving structures constructed by German-speaking people in the State of Pennsylvania The building and site also possess exceptional significance as an industrial community and for the association to various members of the Rittenhouse family The site is an important industrial community whose history spans the 17th 18th and 19th centuries and is the core of an industrial village that once included over forty industrial agricultural institutional and domestic structures Astronomer David Rittenhouse was born in this house the great-grandson of the original owner William Rittenhouse Library of Congress Prints Photographs Online Catalog http //loc gov/pictures/item/pa1139/ HABS PA 51-GERM 78-11 1995-11 Graydon Wood HABS photographer PA 51-GERM 78-11 PD-USGov Category Houses built in the United States in 1707 Houses in Fairmount Park Stone houses in Pennsylvania 1700s houses in Pennsylvania Houses in Philadelphia Houses built in the United States in 1707 | ||||
