William Lightfoot Price (1861-1916)
Prominent architect who produced innovative residential commissions in the Rose Valley community he helped found here in 1901. Thunderbird Lodge, Schönhouse, and the cottages of Porter and Prices lanes were inspired by the English Arts & Crafts movement. He simultaneously pioneered reinforced concrete hotels and railroad stations from Atlantic City to Chicago that influenced American architecture. Price lived here.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUSGS Historical Topographic Map CollectionUSGS Historical Topographic Map CollectionUSGS Historical Topographic Map Collection
Marker data: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission via data.pa.gov
See your own family's places through time.
Start with your family tree