Edgewood (Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania)
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Edgewood, also known as the Charles Sharpless House, is a historic home located in Birmingham Township,
Chester County, Pennsylvania Chester County (Pennsylvania Dutch language, Pennsylvania Dutch: ''Tscheschter Kaundi''), colloquially known as Chesco, is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in the De ...
. It was built about 1846, and is a -story, serpentine structure in the
Victorian Gothic Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
style. After 1873, it was remodeled and a four-story tower added. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1973.


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{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Gothic Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1846 Houses in Chester County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Chester County, Pennsylvania