Hanson Haines House | |
Location: | 4801 Springfield Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Coordinates: | 39.9461°N -75.2169°W |
Built: | 1903 |
Architect: | Balderston, Charles |
Architecture: | German Medieval Revival |
Added: | January 29, 1985 |
Refnum: | 85000179 |
The flamboyant Hanson Haines House, sometimes known simply as the Castle, is a residence at 4801 Springfield Avenue in the Spruce Hill neighborhood of West Philadelphia. The house was built in 1902-03 for Quaker banker Hanson Haines by Quaker architect Charles Balderston in a German Medieval Revival style on the exterior and in a Colonial Revival style in the interior. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]