West Chester Young Ladies Seminary, 300 Maple Avenue, West Chester, Chester County, PA
Summary
Significance: This building, designed by Thomas U. Walter, has served as a seminary, school, military academy, and a convent and, though modified, was originally a very handsome design.
Survey number: HABS PA-1215
Building/structure dates: 1838 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1914 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Ashton, Thomas J
Sartain, J
Queen, James
P. S. Duval & Sons
Sister, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Walter, Thomas U
Phelps, Almira Hart, Lincoln
Goode, Ned, photographer
Anderson, Bart, historian
Location
West Chester (Pa.), 39.96667, -75.60012
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html