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Charles Thomas House, also known as Fairview, is a historic home located in West Whiteland Township,
Chester County, Pennsylvania Chester County (Pennsylvania Dutch language, Pennsylvania Dutch: ''Tscheschter Kaundi''), colloquially referred to as Chesco, is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in ...
. The house was designed by noted Philadelphia architect
Addison Hutton Addison Hutton (1834–1916) was a Philadelphia architect who designed prominent residences in Philadelphia and its suburbs, plus courthouses, hospitals, and libraries, including the Ridgway Library, now Philadelphia High School for the Creative ...
(1834–1916) and built in 1877–1878. The original house was a two-story, five bay rectangular brick dwelling faced with blue
limestone Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...
in a
Late Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an Architectural style, architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half ...
style. It has a service wing and the pentagonal library wing was added in 1896. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1984.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas, Charles, House Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Gothic Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1896 Houses in Chester County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Chester County, Pennsylvania