Cliveden of the National Trust
Cliveden of the National Trust is an eighteenth-century historic house and the site of the 1777 Battle of Germantown. A National Historic Landmark, the site includes two historic properties on over five acres of green space in Philadelphia's Historic Germantown. Cliveden preserves and interprets over 200 years of American history through the lives of the Chew Family and their staff, both enslaved and in service, and it offers programming for children and adults to connect the past and the present.
Historic Germantown
Historic Germantown is a collaborative of 15 historic houses, museums, and landscapes in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. The sites have worked together for decades, gradually building their collective capacity in both infrastructure and interpretation. A 2009 grant from the Center supported the collaborative as it ventured into more complex historical programming, with a yearlong set of intergenerational programs organized around themes of work and industry. In 2015, a Center grant supported the presentation of Elephants on the Avenue: Race, Class and Community in Historic Germantown, a multi-part project that will use the arts as a catalyst for community dialogue and engagement around race and class in Philadelphia's diverse Germantown neighborhood. In 2021, Historic Germantown received a collaborative Re:imagining Recovery grant, along with Stenton and Cliveden of the National Trust, to consider how an 18-member consortium of historic sites in Northwest Philadelphia can leverage shared resources to strengthen community relationships.
Stenton
Built in 1730 as a country house by James Logan—secretary to William Penn—Stenton is known for its early Georgian architecture and outstanding collections of 18th- and 19th-century Logan family furnishings and objects. Since 1899, The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has worked to preserve and maintain Stenton. The Society’s efforts resulted in the Colonial Revival garden, an interpretation of an 18th-century garden; and the History Hunters Youth Reporter Program, which serves over 2,500 Philadelphia schoolchildren each year. In 2018, Stenton received Center support to engage its surrounding Northwest Philadelphia community in the commissioning of a new memorial to Dinah, an enslaved woman who lived at the site. In 2021, Stenton received a collaborative Re:imagining Recovery grant, along with Cliveden and Historic Germanton, to consider how an 18-member consortium of historic sites in Northwest Philadelphia can leverage shared resources to strengthen community relationships.
