Embreeville Historic District
Embreeville Historic District, October 2011
Embreeville Historic District is located in Pennsylvania
Embreeville Historic District
Embreeville Historic District is located in the United States
Embreeville Historic District
LocationRt. 162, Newlin Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates39°53′42″N 75°44′09″W / 39.89500°N 75.73583°W / 39.89500; -75.73583
Area65 acres (26 ha)
ArchitectMultiple
MPSWest Branch Brandywine Creek MRA
NRHP reference No.85002350[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 16, 1985

Embreeville Historic District is a national historic district located in Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 12 contributing buildings along the east and west banks of the West Branch Brandywine Creek in the village of Embreeville. It includes a variety of vernacular, banked, stuccoed stone buildings. They were largely built between about 1822 and 1842, with the earliest house built about 1760. The buildings include a farmhouse, a country store, a storekeeper's house, a blacksmith's house, a wheelwright's house and store, a grist mill known as the Embreeville Mill, a "mansion" (1856), and miller's house.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on July 21, 2007. Retrieved December 27, 2012. Note: This includes Martha Leigh Wolf (December 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Embreeville Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved December 23, 2012.
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