Historic Structure Report, Architectural Data Section: Charles S. Peirce House
Batcheler PH. 1983. Historic Structure Report, Architectural Data Section: Charles S. Peirce House. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Denver Service Center, Denver, Colorado
This report concerns the house of American philosopher, logician, and scientist Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), located two miles north of Milford, Pennsylvania, in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Called "Arisbe," by Peirce, the house was purchased from the Quick family in 1888 and continuously built upon through the end of Peirce's life in 1914. After Peirce's death, his wife, Juliette Peirce, continued to add to the house until her own death in 1934. Robert C. Phillips bought the house in auction in 1936 and his family made renovations until the National Park Service acquired the building in 1972. The report gives an extensive structural history of the house, which also provides an account of the Peirces' life in and constructing the house, giving light to Peirce's often tempestuous relationship with the house. Recommendations made center on returning the house to its 1911-14 appearance. While Batcheler suggests that the 1892 was more architecturally successful, returning the house to such a state would be extreme, and also undo much of the Peirce's labor.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Batcheler, Penelope
- Date of Issue
- 1983-09
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- DEWA , NER
- Keywords
- Charles Peirce, Delaware Valley, Delaware Water Gap, home, restoration, retreat
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 009531: Charles S. Peirce House