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Condition: RARE, Beautiful! German-Made Card, VERY FINE CONDITION! A VERY RARE 1906 The Old Historic Haines House Germantown Philadelphia PA RARE Undivided back era Antique Postcard. Posted From Portsmouth Va Augus ... Read More
Condition: RARE, Beautiful! German-Made Card, VERY FINE CONDITION!
A VERY RARE 1906 The Old Historic Haines House Germantown Philadelphia PA RARE Undivided back era Antique Postcard.
Posted From Portsmouth Va August 1906 with 2 cent Washington Stamp to Miss Dora E Hodsdon of Auburn Maine R.F.D. 6 Box 33
Message reads "I. O. U. A. letter and will try and write soon. Go to Mrs. Bedford Sat to shout? R.D.H."
The Rotograph Co. N.Y. City (Germany)
The Wyck House, also called the Haines House and the Hans Millan House, is a historic mansion,
museum, garden, and home farm at 6026 Germantown Avenue in the Germantown section of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. It was recognized as a National Historic Landmark in 1971 for its well-preserved condition,
and its documentary records, which span nine generations of a single family.
It is now a historic house museum.
Wyck's earliest owner was Hans Millan, a Quaker who came from Germany by 1689, and was a descendant of a
Swiss Mennonite family. His daughter, Margaret, married a Dutch Quaker named Dirk Jansen, a linen weaver who
prospered in the first half of the 18th century. By the time of his death, he was listed as a gentleman and
had Anglicized his name to Dirk Johnson. Their daughter, Catherine, married Caspar Wistar, a German who became
a Quaker and amassed a sizable fortune as a button maker, glassmaker and investor in land.
In the next generation, Margaret Wistar married Reuben Haines I, a brewer and merchant of English descent.
Their son Caspar Wistar Haines continued the family businesses and married Hannah Marshall, a member of another
Quaker family. Wyck then passed to Reuben Haines III and Jane Bowne Haines. Reuben Haines was involved in
the founding of the Eastern State Penitentiary, Franklin Institute, and American Philosophical Society. Wyck
was passed to their youngest daughter, Jane Reuben Haines, afterwards, who lived here until 1911, carefully
preserving the house, furnishings and gardens.
Wyck served as a summer home until Reuben Haines III moved his family into it as their permanent residence.
Shortly after this move, he hired his friend, William Strickland, to remodel the entire building. Reuben is
also responsible for Wyck's name, as nobody with the last name Wyck ever married into the family. On one of his
many travels, Reuben came across a landscape sketch of Wyck the Seat of Richard Haines esq. Believing that Richard
Haines was a relative, Reuben brought the sketch back to his house, and started calling his own home Wyck. It was
later revealed that Reuben's family had no connection to Richard Haines, but the name stuck.
In the eighth generation, Jane B. Haines founded the first school of horticulture for women, the Pennsylvania School
of Horticulture for Women, which is now Temple Ambler, and one brother, Caspar, helped design the Mexican railway system;
while another, Robert, invented a gauge for measuring steel in rolling mills.
The last owners, Robert and Mary Haines, were fruit growers; Robert patented a device to press apples for a more natural
tasting juice. In 1973, Mary Troth Haines donated Wyck to Historical Germantown. Wyck's family descendants are still very
involved in the life of their home and community.
Wyck house in 2009
Today, Wyck is maintained as a house museum. The gardens are known for their collection of old roses, including 30 varieties,
and the home farm has become a staple of the community. Wyck Historic House, Garden, and Farm is open to the public on Thursdays,
Fridays, and Saturdays, from 12 to 4. They also have a weekly farmer's market on Fridays from 2 to 6.
Architecture
Wyck is an architecturally innovative house with an old-fashioned skin. From the outside it appears colonial in plan and design
with some fashionable accents such as the late 18th-century whitewashed stucco.
The house is actually an accumulation of 18th-century parts: the hall (c. 1700–20), the front parlor (1736) and the library
and dining room from (1771–73, which replaced a c. 1690 log structure.)
The house has been little altered since 1824, when Philadelphia architect William Strickland dramatically rearranged its
interior spaces to create an open plan, allowing light to flood each room and bringing the pleasures of the garden inside.
Strickland also added a set of "folding doors", which swing on a 90 degree angle, allowing the owners to close off two rooms
with only one door.
Education at Wyck
Wyck offers a variety of educational programs for school groups, including environmental education, programs that focus on
history of Quakerism, Native Americans, Colonial life, and Philadelphia. These programs foster literacy and writing while offering
children activities such as arts and crafts and gardening.
Home farm
For more than 250 years, Wyck existed as a working farm, a legacy that continues today with Wyck's Home Farm, established in 2007.
There are large vegetable and herb gardens, strawberry and raspberry beds, gooseberries and blueberries, along with fruit trees,
an asparagus bed, a cutting garden, and a large grape arbor. Wyck is also home to several beehives. The various gardens are managed
using traditional gardening techniques, with no synthetic chemicals used. Produce from the farm is sold at a seasonal, on-site weekly
farmers' market.
RARE, Beautiful! German-Made Card, VERY FINE CONDITION!
Buyer to receive FREE S/H anywhere within the US
International buyers welcome!
Thank You for Viewing
A VERY RARE 1906 The Old Historic Haines House Germantown Philadelphia PA RARE Undivided back era Antique Postcard.
Posted From Portsmouth Va August 1906 with 2 cent Washington Stamp to Miss Dora E Hodsdon of Auburn Maine R.F.D. 6 Box 33
Message reads "I. O. U. A. letter and will try and write soon. Go to Mrs. Bedford Sat to shout? R.D.H."
The Rotograph Co. N.Y. City (Germany)
The Wyck House, also called the Haines House and the Hans Millan House, is a historic mansion,
museum, garden, and home farm at 6026 Germantown Avenue in the Germantown section of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. It was recognized as a National Historic Landmark in 1971 for its well-preserved condition,
and its documentary records, which span nine generations of a single family.
It is now a historic house museum.
Wyck's earliest owner was Hans Millan, a Quaker who came from Germany by 1689, and was a descendant of a
Swiss Mennonite family. His daughter, Margaret, married a Dutch Quaker named Dirk Jansen, a linen weaver who
prospered in the first half of the 18th century. By the time of his death, he was listed as a gentleman and
had Anglicized his name to Dirk Johnson. Their daughter, Catherine, married Caspar Wistar, a German who became
a Quaker and amassed a sizable fortune as a button maker, glassmaker and investor in land.
In the next generation, Margaret Wistar married Reuben Haines I, a brewer and merchant of English descent.
Their son Caspar Wistar Haines continued the family businesses and married Hannah Marshall, a member of another
Quaker family. Wyck then passed to Reuben Haines III and Jane Bowne Haines. Reuben Haines was involved in
the founding of the Eastern State Penitentiary, Franklin Institute, and American Philosophical Society. Wyck
was passed to their youngest daughter, Jane Reuben Haines, afterwards, who lived here until 1911, carefully
preserving the house, furnishings and gardens.
Wyck served as a summer home until Reuben Haines III moved his family into it as their permanent residence.
Shortly after this move, he hired his friend, William Strickland, to remodel the entire building. Reuben is
also responsible for Wyck's name, as nobody with the last name Wyck ever married into the family. On one of his
many travels, Reuben came across a landscape sketch of Wyck the Seat of Richard Haines esq. Believing that Richard
Haines was a relative, Reuben brought the sketch back to his house, and started calling his own home Wyck. It was
later revealed that Reuben's family had no connection to Richard Haines, but the name stuck.
In the eighth generation, Jane B. Haines founded the first school of horticulture for women, the Pennsylvania School
of Horticulture for Women, which is now Temple Ambler, and one brother, Caspar, helped design the Mexican railway system;
while another, Robert, invented a gauge for measuring steel in rolling mills.
The last owners, Robert and Mary Haines, were fruit growers; Robert patented a device to press apples for a more natural
tasting juice. In 1973, Mary Troth Haines donated Wyck to Historical Germantown. Wyck's family descendants are still very
involved in the life of their home and community.
Wyck house in 2009
Today, Wyck is maintained as a house museum. The gardens are known for their collection of old roses, including 30 varieties,
and the home farm has become a staple of the community. Wyck Historic House, Garden, and Farm is open to the public on Thursdays,
Fridays, and Saturdays, from 12 to 4. They also have a weekly farmer's market on Fridays from 2 to 6.
Architecture
Wyck is an architecturally innovative house with an old-fashioned skin. From the outside it appears colonial in plan and design
with some fashionable accents such as the late 18th-century whitewashed stucco.
The house is actually an accumulation of 18th-century parts: the hall (c. 1700–20), the front parlor (1736) and the library
and dining room from (1771–73, which replaced a c. 1690 log structure.)
The house has been little altered since 1824, when Philadelphia architect William Strickland dramatically rearranged its
interior spaces to create an open plan, allowing light to flood each room and bringing the pleasures of the garden inside.
Strickland also added a set of "folding doors", which swing on a 90 degree angle, allowing the owners to close off two rooms
with only one door.
Education at Wyck
Wyck offers a variety of educational programs for school groups, including environmental education, programs that focus on
history of Quakerism, Native Americans, Colonial life, and Philadelphia. These programs foster literacy and writing while offering
children activities such as arts and crafts and gardening.
Home farm
For more than 250 years, Wyck existed as a working farm, a legacy that continues today with Wyck's Home Farm, established in 2007.
There are large vegetable and herb gardens, strawberry and raspberry beds, gooseberries and blueberries, along with fruit trees,
an asparagus bed, a cutting garden, and a large grape arbor. Wyck is also home to several beehives. The various gardens are managed
using traditional gardening techniques, with no synthetic chemicals used. Produce from the farm is sold at a seasonal, on-site weekly
farmers' market.
RARE, Beautiful! German-Made Card, VERY FINE CONDITION!
Buyer to receive FREE S/H anywhere within the US
International buyers welcome!
Thank You for Viewing
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