Report on the Perot-Morris House, Germantown, Pennsylvania
Appleman RE. 1948. Report on the Perot-Morris House, Germantown, Pennsylvania. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
Independence National Historical Park preserves sites associated with the American Revolution and the nation's founding history in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This report concerns the Perot-Morris House, which twice sheltered George Washington. In 1793, he took refuge there from the deadly yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. The following summer, it was a welcome retreat from the heat of the capital city. Ironically, Washington's nemesis, British General William Howe, occupied this home during the Revolutionary War in October 1777. Also known as the Deshler-Morris House, the home gets its name from its first and last owners. David Deshler built the home beginning in 1752. Elliston P. Morris donated it to the National Park Service in 1948. The Morris House has been lived in continually, except possibly for very short periods of time, from the date it was built, 1772-73 to about 1943. The original part of the house has been very little altered, and probably none at all since about 1850 or 1860. The author contends that there would seem to be advantages in establishing the area as a national historic site, having its own administration, and not as part of Independence National Historical Park.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Appleman, Roy
- Date of Issue
- 1948-08-06
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- INDE , NER
- Keywords
- American Revolution, Colonial Style, Deshler, Federal Style, George Washington, Morris, Perot
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 000809: Deshler-Morris House