Mansions Along the Delaware - Andalusia

The Rosemary House recently hosted a Traveling Herb Seminar that featured Mansions along the Delaware River. This tour showed us what over 300 years of entertaining along the Delaware River looked like back in the day. The Delaware River forms the eastern border of Pennsylvania and separates our state from New Jersey. Now a very peaceful view, in the early days of our developing country, the river was a multi-lane highway of commerce and traffic. Our first stop was Andalusia. This Greek Revival style home has been entertaining visitors since 1836.

This lovely country estate is located 13 miles upstream from central Philadelphia in Bucks County. Privately held by the Biddle Family, we were fortunate to be able to take a peek inside and a very quick walk around the grounds. An attempt at commercial grape growing was made in the mid 1800's. Two enormous masonry walls have been partially restored to show their original purpose. These walls currently enclose and enhance the formal garden.