Enoch Rittenhouse Home

This home was built by Enoch Rittenhouse (1773-1855), a descendent of William Rittenhouse, about 1845. The home was built at a time when the Rittenhouse family enclave was becoming a recognizable village, with a school, a chapel, a fire company, a blacksmith and wheelwright. It is an example of the rural Greek revival style of architecture. In 2001, the building underwent major interior and exterior restoration. The first floor of the building houses the exhibit We Lived Along the Wissahickon: The Blue Bell Hill Oral History Project . The project records experiences of people who lived in the community of Blue Bell Hill, which developed on once Rittenhouse property, when RittenhouseTown declined as a village and became a part of Fairmount Park. (labeled 208 on map)