Historic house · Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County
Harriton House
The 1704 stone house where Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental Congress, spent his later years, now a house museum set among fields and woods.
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Main Line Art Center
A community art center founded in 1937, with changing gallery exhibitions of contemporary work and studio classes for artists of all ages and abilities.
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Stoneleigh: A Natural Garden
Replanted with native species, the gardens of this former Main Line estate, now run by the conservation group Natural Lands, spread among old trees, lawns, meadows and woodland.
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Haverford College Arboretum
The whole college campus is an arboretum, with a duck pond, a pinetum and a nature trail that loops past grand old trees and open fields.
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Henry Foundation for Botanical Research
A rocky hillside garden of native plants gathered by botanist Mary Gibson Henry on her collecting expeditions, many of them through the Southeast, and kept as a living research collection.
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Chanticleer Garden
A former family estate turned 'pleasure garden,' with an imaginative ruin garden, a teacup garden, exuberant borders, and benches and bridges handcrafted by the gardeners themselves.
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Historic Grange Estate
An estate whose mansion grew from an early 18th-century farmhouse into a Gothic Revival country seat, with gardens, wooded grounds and a guest list that once included George Washington.
