Jump to navigation
Main menu
LCP Home
Search
Search Library Catalog
Search Digital Collections
How to Search the Collections
Access Terms Used in Our Catalogs
Finding Aids
Explore
Browse Collections
LCP News
Social Media
Exhibitions
Podcast
Academic Programs
Overview
Fellowships
Innovation Award
Biennial First Book Award
Seminars
Program in African American History
Program in Early American Economy and Society
The Davida T. Deutsch Program in Women’s History
Visual Culture Program
Research
Overview
Subject Guides
Finding Aids
Online Exhibitions
Bookbinding Research
Using the Library
Overview
Hours, Access, & Location
Rights & Reproductions
How to Search Collections
Potentially Harmful Materials and Descriptions Statement
Online Resources
Events
Upcoming Events
Seminars
LCP News
LCP Press Resources
Projects
Beyond Glass Cases
Library Company Papers Project
Hearing Voices
Imperfect History
Fireside Chats
Support the Library
Overview
Donate Online!
Join & Renew Membership Online
Support: Shareholding
Lecture in Honor of John C. Van Horne
Membership Benefits
Planned Giving
Annual Dinner
Junto
About LCP
Annual Reports
Staff
Board of Trustees
Employment
Affiliations
LCP Blog
Press Resources
LCP Privacy Policy
Overview and History
LCP FAQ Sheet
Hope Farm and Richmond Hall
You are here
Browse Collections
›
Frank H. Taylor Illustration Collection
Back to top
Details
Creator
Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927
Title
Hope Farm and Richmond Hall
Date
ca. 1922
Description
Reproduction of a drawing depicting several residential buildings and factories surrounding a dock. A boat, fishermen, and stacks of goods are in the foreground.
Notes
William Ball, a native of Devonshire, England, and first of the Pennsylvania branch of the Ball family in America, bouught a large tract of riverfront land in Kensington in 1728. This he called Hope Farm. The residence built thereon he named Richmond Hall, probably in complement to his Virginian relatives, one of whom, Mary Ball, "the rose of Epping forest," became the wife of Augustine Washington and mother of George Washington. Richmond Hall was loacated close to the Delaware River shore just north of the foot of Norris Street. A son of William Ball, bearing the same name, succeeded to the Hope Farm property. He became, by appointment in 1761, the first Provincial Grand Master of the Free Masons of Pennsylvania. He died in 1810. The Hope Farm manor and residence were willed to his only daughter, "Harriott." The tracts appears upon a map of 1774 as Ballstown. An advertisement appeared in Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, in 1821, referring to teh Richmond Hotel, "one mile above Kensington on the Delaware." The proprietor, C. J. Wolbert, was famed for the excellence of his catfish dinners. This hotel was the old Ball Mansion. The Port Richmond coal terminal is upon land of the old Ball estate. This drawing has been made from an illustration printed in 1853.
Taylor Catalog Number: 165
Is part of
Frank H. Taylor Collection
Identifier
Taylor - Case 12-18 [2717.F]
In Collections
Frank H. Taylor Illustration Collection
Log In