Laurel Hill, Edgeley Point Lane, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Significance: Erected about 1765, Laurel Hill represents one of the earliest in a series of villas commissioned by affluent Philadelphians along Edgeley Point Lane and elsewhere in the Northern Liberties until the early nineteenth century. It is a small Georgian house with two major additions and bears formal similarities to other villas along the Lane. During the Revolution, the Pennsylvania legislature confiscated Laurel Hill; it came into the hands of pioneering surgeon Philip Syng Physsick in 1828, and there decades later became of source of public rather than private delight when, along with other villa properties, it was purchased by the City of Philadelphia and incorporated into Fairmount Park.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-104
Survey number: HABS PA-13
Building/structure dates: ca. 1765 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1813 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1830 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001151