Mill Details

Phillip's Mill

Bucks Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Known Dates: 1756, Remodeled into Art Gallery 1930
Township: Solebury Twp.
Watersource: Primrose Creek.

Official Website: www.phillipsmill.com
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Phillip's Mill

One mile north of New Hope on River Road/Pa 32.




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Phillip's Mill
Jim Miller 06/21/2007

Built in 1756 by Aaron Phillips and ran through 4 successive Philips' generations. The Delaware Canal runs nearby, just across Pa 32 from the mill.

Phillip's Mill
Jim Miller 06/21/2007

In 1889, the 35'x50' fieldstone/frame mill towering to 2.5 stories was sold to Stephen Betts Jr. George Morley Marshall, a Philadelphia surgeon, bought the mill in 1896 and all water rights.

Phillip's Mill
Jim Miller 06/21/2007

In 1929, the Phillips Mill Community Asso. purchased the mill for art exhibits, plays, etc.GPS: 40' 23.12N, 74' 57.73W 102'31 meters Stockton Quadrangle

Phillip's Mill
Jim Miller 06/21/2007

The miller's house, the original section immediately behind the directional signs.

Phillip's Mill
Jim Miller 06/21/2007

*Updated: The Inn at Pillips Mill was once the pig barn for the mill/farm complex. The miller's house is the big house north of the mill and inn. At first it was one room down and one room up at the near end of the house to the mill. Additions and alterations came in later years. The white clapboard house beyond, to the suth, the barn was also part of the original Phillips property. Richard Phillips 10/23/2004*.

Phillip's Mill
Jim Miller 10/28/1987

The Inn at Phillips Mill began life in the 1750?s as a stone farmhouse with an attached barn; it became the Inn at Phillips Mill after being purchased in 1972 by an architect and his wife, who renovated the structure into the inn.

Phillip's Mill
Jim Miller 06/21/2007

Millstone on the grounds of the Phillips Mill Community Center/Art Gallery.

Phillip's Mill
Jim Miller 10/28/1987

By the late 1800's, the village of Phillips Mill was known as an artist's haven. The nearby miller's house was once owned by the well known artist, William Lathrop.

 
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