Wyck House
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The Wyck house, also known as the Haines house or Hans Millan house, is a historic mansion, museum, garden, and urban farm in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was recogniz
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Digital photograph of the front face of the Wyck house, with its historic roses climbing the trellis, facing northeast toward Germantown Ave. The building in the background is the Green Tree Tavern (6023 Germantown Ave.), built in 1743.
Roses on the front trellis of Wyck c. 1900, facing southwest.
Reuben Haines III
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Reuben Haines III was a Quaker farmer, brewer, abolitionist, scientist, ornithologist, meteorologist, firefighter, philanthropist, and educational reformer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Wyck House
…Carrington Morris, and George Ord. Wyck is the type locality of the Queen snake (Regina septemvittata), discovered on the second floor of the house by Reuben Haines III and described in 1825 by Thomas Say. It is also the type locality of the terrestrial gastropod Ventridens suppressus (Say 1829). The house was renovated…
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP) Museum, 12th and Sansom Sts., Philadelphia. Haines attended meetings at this (now demolished) building from 1826 until his death in 1831. The ANSP vacated the building in 1840.
The home of Reuben Haines III: the historic Wyck House in Germantown, Philadelphia. Photo taken in 2009.