6026 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Philadelphia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 26, 1971. NRIS 71000736.
7 contributing buildings.
The Wyck house, also known as the Haines house or Hans Millan house, is a historic mansion, museum, garden, and urban farm in the Germantown neighborhood 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.
During the American Revolution, the Wyck house was occupied by British forces and used as a field hospital ("a room for amputations and other hospital operations, requiring prompt care") after the Battle of Germantown, in October 1777. Wyck was the site of an early American brewery from 1794 to 1801, and later became a meeting place of influential American scientists and artists including Thomas Say, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, John James Audubon, Thomas Nuttall, William Cooper, William Maclure, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Margaretta Morris, Elizabeth Carrington Morris, and George Ord. Wyck is the type locality of the Queen snake (Regina septemvittata), discovered on the second floor of the house by Reuben Haines III and described in 1825 by Thomas Say. It is also the type locality of the terrestrial gastropod Ventridens suppressus (Say 1829).
The house was renovated in 1824 by William Strickland, the famous Greek revivalist architect. The following year, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette returned to visit the sites of the Battle of Germantown, and was hosted in a reception at Wyck.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997022