Mount Joy, also known as the Peter Legaux Mansion, is an historic, American house that is located in the Spring Mill section of Whitemarsh Township,

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Montgomery County, colloquially referred to as Montco, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population of the county was 856,553, making it the third-most populous county in Pennsylvania after Philadel ...

. It was added to the

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in 1971.

History and architectural features

Built circa 1735 by Anthony Morris for his son John, ''Note:'' This includes ''Note:'' This includes this historic structure is a -story, five-bay, stone dwelling with a gambrel roof. It has ten fireplaces, some with iron firebacks. Peter Legaux was the owner of "Spring Mill," a nearby

gristmill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...

that was in operation by 1704. The mill burned in 1967, and its stone ruins were demolished. Legaux also started the Pennsylvania Vine Company—which would become the first commercial vineyard in the US—on this property. Mount Joy was added to the

in 1971.

References

{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1735 Houses in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania