Bryn Athyn Historic District
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Bryn Athyn Historic District
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Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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| Location | Huntington Pike and Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 40°8′4″N 75°3′48″W / 40.13444°N 75.06333°WCoordinates: 40°8′4″N 75°3′48″W / 40.13444°N 75.06333°W |
| Area | 37.7 acres (15.3 ha) |
| Architect | Carrere and Hastings, Cram, Trout; Price, Pitcairn |
| Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival, Beaux Arts |
| NRHP Reference # | 08001087 |
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| Added to NRHP | October 6, 2008 |
| Designated NHLD | October 6, 2008 |
The Bryn Athyn Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing an important collection of Arts and Crafts movement architecture in Bryn Athyn, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Designated in 2008, it includes three residential properties associated with the Pitcairn family who supported the movement, as well as Bryn Athyn Cathedral, all built by craftsmen employed by the Pitcairns.
The district properties are located in the center of Bryn Athyn, on the west side of Huntington Pike (Pennsylvania Route 232), and is roughly bisected by Cathedral Road. On its north side stand Cairnwood and the Glencairn Museum, both built as homes of the Pitcairns, and on its south are the Bryn Athyn Cathedral, the mother church of the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and Cairncrest, another Pitcairn home that now houses church offices.
John Pitcairn Jr. (1841-1916) was a Scottish-born businessman who built a large fortune through the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company (now PPG Industries), the first major manufacturer of plate glass. In religion Pitcairn was a Swedenborgian, and he sought in the late 1880s to establish a major educational and religious enter for The New Church. To that end he purchased 500 acres (200 ha) in what was then rural Montgomery County, Pennsylvania north of Philadelphia. He retained the renowned New York City firm of Carrère and Hastings to design his estate called Cairnwood. Completed in 1895, it is a major residential work in the Beaux Arts style, some of whose principles would inform later work of the Pitcairns. Pitcairn also retained Charles Eliot to landscape and plan the acreage for the family and the adjacent religious institutions.
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