Pottsgrove Manor | |
Location: | West of Pottstown on Benjamin Franklin Highway (High Street), Pottstown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Coordinates: | 40.2478°N -75.6597°W |
Built: | 1752 |
Architecture: | Early Georgian |
Added: | January 18, 1974 |
Refnum: | 74001796 |
Designated Other1 Name: | Pennsylvania state historical marker |
Designated Other1 Abbr: | PHMC |
Designated Other1 Date: | September 25, 2000[1] |
Designated Other1 Link: | List of Pennsylvania state historical markers |
Designated Other1 Color: | navy |
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Pottsgrove Manor, also known as the John Potts House, is an historic, American home that is located in Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Located in the Old Pottstown Historic District, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
This historic structure was built in 1752 by John Potts, and is a large two-story, rectangular, sandstone and fieldstone building that was designed in the Georgian style. It has a five-bay front facade, a gable roof, and a center hall plan. The service wing was added between 1790 and 1805, and the rebuilt east wing was added between 1941 and 1952 during a restoration.
It is open to the public as an eighteenth-century historic house museum and is owned by Montgomery County.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is located in the Old Pottstown Historic District.