John Johnson House
6306 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos
Johnson House
7. Historic American Buildings Survey, E.F. Hoffman Jr., Photographer March 21, 1934 VIEW FROM SOUTHEAST.
Photo from the Historic American Buildings Survey
Description
Philadelphia was a center of the nineteenth-century American movement to abolish slavery, and the Johnson House was one of the important stationson the Underground Railroad that helped lead so many to freedom. From 1770 to 1908, five generations of the Quaker Johnson family, leading abolitionists and reformers, lived in this colonial stone house. Among the oldest structures in Germantown. It later served as a Woman's Club, and is now a historic house museum. The house is within the Colonial Germantown National Historic District. -- National Historic Landmark statement of significance, December 9, 1997National Register information
- Status
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on January 13, 1972
- Reference number
- 72001162
- NR name
- Johnson, John, House
- Architectural styles
- Colonial; Other architectural type; Dutch Colonial
- Area of significance
- Architecture
- Level of significance
- National
- Evaluation criteria
- C - Design/Construction
- Property type
- Building
- Historic function
- Single dwelling
- Current function
- Museum
- Period of significance
- 1750-1799
- Significant year
- 1768
Sources
- HABS PA-7-7 - Johnson House
- Andrew Wood
- National Register database - Reference number 72001162
- National Historic Landmark information
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