Last updated: May 24, 2024
Place
Buck Hill Falls Inn
Olmsted Archives, Job #07242, Buck Hills Falls, PA
Quick Facts
In 1901, a group of friends from Philadelphia decided to form a private resort community, serving as a sort of Quaker retreat, in a couple hours to the North in Buck Hill Falls. They decided to community, Buck Hill Falls Inn.
What originally started out as a small wooden hostelry, began expanding and needed more space and buildings, and so to help, the community hired Olmsted Brothers. In 1923, they would begin at Buck Hill Falls Inn on the historic stonework, placing an amphitheater, stone walls, and tunnels around the property, all of which stand today.
By 2016, after a prosperous career, Buck Hill Falls Inn had been vacant for twenty-five years. The Inn had become a ruin, though the allure of the property’s scenic vista and historic value, being an Olmsted designed landscape, remained. The community once again came together with a mission of preserving and protecting this land, which echoes the glory of its past, and promises future gatherings and celebrations at the newly restored site.
Source: "Olmsted Associates Records," Library of Congress
For more information and primary resources, please visit:
Olmsted Research Guide Online
Olmsted Archives on Flickr
What originally started out as a small wooden hostelry, began expanding and needed more space and buildings, and so to help, the community hired Olmsted Brothers. In 1923, they would begin at Buck Hill Falls Inn on the historic stonework, placing an amphitheater, stone walls, and tunnels around the property, all of which stand today.
By 2016, after a prosperous career, Buck Hill Falls Inn had been vacant for twenty-five years. The Inn had become a ruin, though the allure of the property’s scenic vista and historic value, being an Olmsted designed landscape, remained. The community once again came together with a mission of preserving and protecting this land, which echoes the glory of its past, and promises future gatherings and celebrations at the newly restored site.
Source: "Olmsted Associates Records," Library of Congress
For more information and primary resources, please visit:
Olmsted Research Guide Online
Olmsted Archives on Flickr