You are here

Eastern Pennsylvania » The Northern Tier and the Poconos » Monroe County » Mountainhome and Vicinity » Buck Hill Falls Inn

Buck Hill Falls Inn

-A A +A
1901–1925, Bunting and Shrigley; with additions. Golf Rd., off PA 390, 1 mile north of Mountainhome

Buck Hill Falls resort is announced by a pair of stupendously rugged stone gateposts that frame the road to the central inn. The resort had its start when Philadelphia Quaker Samuel Griscom built a small inn of some twenty rooms with no private baths. Its splendid site and cool temperatures attracted other Philadelphians who formed a summer colony. Bunting and Shrigley were the architects of the principal building that continued to expand until the Great Depression and then again into the 1970s. The hotel merges the scale of the boardwalk hotels with the proportions of Colonial Revival overlaid by the rustic materials of Shingle Style to embody the retreat sensibility that characterized most of the Quaker resorts. The main complex is now a rotting ruin, derelict since the early 1990s and with roofs of stables broken through.

Writing Credits

Author: 
George E. Thomas
×

Data

What's Nearby

Cresco Station of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Skytop Lodge
Brodhead Forest and Stream Association (Stites Mountain House)
Lake Paupac
Promised Land State Park

Citation

George E. Thomas, "Buck Hill Falls Inn", [Cresco, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-02-MN14.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 2

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, George E. Thomas, with Patricia Likos Ricci, Richard J. Webster, Lawrence M. Newman, Robert Janosov, and Bruce Thomas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 522-522.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,