West Central Germantown Neighbors (WCGN) will host a home and garden tour of the nationally registered Tulpehocken Station Historic District on Sunday, May 31.
The district, which extends from Tulpehocken Station to Germantown Avenue, includes buildings like the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion.
The self-guided tour will feature houses and gardens within the district, with properties dating back to the 1840s.
The neighborhood’s design features styles including Gothic Revival, Italianate Revival, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, Second Empire, Colonial Revival, Arts and Crafts, Georgian Revival, …
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West Central Germantown Neighbors (WCGN) will host a home and garden tour of the nationally registered Tulpehocken Station Historic District on Sunday, May 31.
The district, which extends from Tulpehocken Station to Germantown Avenue, includes buildings like the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion.
The self-guided tour will feature houses and gardens within the district, with properties dating back to the 1840s.
The neighborhood’s design features styles including Gothic Revival, Italianate Revival, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, Second Empire, Colonial Revival, Arts and Crafts, Georgian Revival, and Art Deco.
“We’re really very excited about this event, and it’s been long in planning, or at least it’s been in talking stages for a long time,” Suzanne Ponsen, president of WCGN, told the Local. “We’ve collected a group of homes that are beautiful, and we are really appreciative of the hosts who are allowing us to use them and for people to visit them. Some of them have gardens attached that they’ve tended for many years.”
“The Tulpehocken Station Historic District has long been on the national registry,” she added. “It was nominated by our group, WCGN, back in the ’90s … The district is an exceptionally well-preserved example of an early suburban community during the Industrial Revolution. When the factories and so forth were built, the upper middle class wanted to get away from the pollution and the cramped quarters in town.”
There are six buildings, including a church and eight gardens, participating in the tour, with the full list of addresses provided once you purchase tickets.
The oldest house on the tour belongs to Lora Lewis, the secretary of WCGN, whose house was built in 1850.
“The church is one of the only brownstone buildings in Germantown. It’s a Romanesque-and-Gothic design, but it’s a brownstone church, which is a rarity in our neighborhood. On our tour, we have some amazing examples of the really high Victorian architecture,” Lewis said. “One of our gardens is a certified wildlife habitat, and this garden, it’s fairly new, but it has been carefully curated for all kinds of birds. They even have herons that will stop by and visit it. It has a fish pond, and it’s absolutely lovely.”
Tickets are $35 online at wcgnonline.org or $40 the day of at 29 West Tulpehocken St.
