Camp-Woods Explained

Camp-Woods
Nrhp Type:nrhp
Location:745 Newtown Rd., Villanova, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:40.0208°N -75.3628°W
Built:1910-1912
Architect:John S. Cornell & Sons; Howard Van Doren Shaw
Architecture:Italianate, Georgian
Added:September 1, 1983
Refnum:83002239

Camp-Woods, is a historic estate with associated buildings located at Villanova, Delaware County, Pennsylvania and built on a high spot which had been a 200-man outpost of George Washington's Army during the Valley Forge winter of 1777–78.[1] The house, built between 1910 and 1912 for banker James M. Willcox, is a two-story, brick and limestone, F-shaped house in an Italianate-Georgian style. It measures in length and deep at the "waist." It has a slate roof, Doric order limestone cornice, open loggia porches, and a covered entrance porch supported by Doric order columns. The house was designed by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw (1869-1926). The property includes formal gardens.[2] Its former carriage house is no longer part of the main estate. The original tennis court is now also a separate property named "Outpost Hill". The Revolutionary encampment is marked by a flagpole in a circular stone monument at the north-western edge of the property. The inscription reads, "An outpost of George Washington's Army encamped here thro the winter of Valley Forge 1777-1778".

The Camp-Woods mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Notes and References

  1. The War of the Revolution in Radnor (1777-1778) by Francis James Dallett, revised 2014 by Phil Graham, published by Radnor Historical Society.
  2. Web site: National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania. CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Searchable database. 2012-01-12. 2007-07-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20070721014609/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp. dead. Note: This includes Web site: [{{NRHP-PA|H079285_01H.pdf}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Camp-Woods]. 2012-01-11. Martin Avery Snyder. PDF. April 1983.