Pennsbury Manor

Pennsbury Manor
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Pennsylvania state historical marker
Pennsbury Manor in Tullytown, Pennsylvania in October 2012
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Nearest city	Tullytown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Coordinates	40°07′58″N 74°46′06″W / 40.13278°N 74.76833°W / 40.13278; -74.76833
Built	Original: 1683 Recreation: 1939
Architect	Original: Unknown Recreation: R. Brognard Okie
NRHP reference No.	69000154[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	October 28, 1969
Designated PHMC	November 11, 1949 and October 08, 1951[2]

Pennsbury Manor is the colonial estate of William Penn, founder and proprietor of the Colony of Pennsylvania, who lived there from 1699 to 1701. He left it and returned to England in 1701, where he died penniless in 1718. Following his departure and financial woes, the estate fell into numerous hands and disrepair. Since 1939, a reconstructed manor has stood on the original property.

Penn had his manor built on an 8,000-acre (3,200 ha) parcel, part of his much larger grant of land from the Crown. It was located about 25 miles north of Philadelphia along the Delaware River in present-day Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

In 1929, the Pennsylvania legislature authorized acquisition of the property by gift. In 1932 the Warner Company donated nearly ten acres of the property to the state of Pennsylvania as a site for a permanent memorial to Penn. The Pennsylvania Historical Commission was given responsibility for it. The legislature appropriated money to reconstruct the buildings of this estate in a historically accurate manner, to create a house museum in 1939.

Over the decades, more land was acquired, and the property now has a total of 43-acre (17 ha). The property was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1969. The manor house and grounds are administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in association with The Pennsbury Society, and are open to the public.^[3]