Grumblethorpe Tenant House

	Grumblethorpe Tenant House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Grumblethorpe Tenant House, March 2010
Location	5269 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°1′56″N 75°10′8″W / 40.03222°N 75.16889°WCoordinates: 40°1′56″N 75°10′8″W / 40.03222°N 75.16889°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	c. 1744
NRHP reference No.	72001156
Added to NRHP	June 19, 1972

Grumblethorpe Tenant House, also known as the Tenant House of Wister's Big House, is a historic home located in the Wister neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1744, and expanded in the early 19th-century. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, stone dwelling, 31 feet square. The original house was one-story, 19 feet wide by 28 feet deep. It was originally built as a dependency^{[clarification needed]} to John Wister's summer home, Grumblethorpe.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.^[1] It is a contributing property of the Colonial Germantown Historic District, which has been designated a National Historic Landmark.

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2012-07-04. Note: This includes Fran Deutsch (January 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Grumblethorpe Tenant House" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-07-03.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[arch-2] "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2012-07-04. Note: This includes Fran Deutsch (January 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Grumblethorpe Tenant House" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-07-03.

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