History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . DOYLESTOWN, OLD AND NEW. 37 Bois, the year he built the house to mark the birth of his son Samuel,the artist. We now turn into State street, going west, and the firstold dwelling we strike, is the west end of the Hall homestead, built1800 by Isaac Hall,5 father of the late Samuel^ and grandfather ofCharles Hall, shortly after moving over from New Jersey. Until re-cently it had never been occupied by any other family. We next stopin front of the Nightingale stone house, with pointed fron
History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . DOYLESTOWN, OLD AND NEW. 37 Bois, the year he built the house to mark the birth of his son Samuel,the artist. We now turn into State street, going west, and the firstold dwelling we strike, is the west end of the Hall homestead, built1800 by Isaac Hall,5 father of the late Samuel^ and grandfather ofCharles Hall, shortly after moving over from New Jersey. Until re-cently it had never been occupied by any other family. We next stopin front of the Nightingale stone house, with pointed front, one dooreast of Pine, south side. It was built 1821, and in it the DoylestownNational Bank was organized, 1832-33, whence it removed to the newbank building on west side of North Main street, now occupied by theDoylestown Trust Company, which purchased it of the National Bankin recent years. The Nightingale house, too young to join in the pro-cession that welcomes the county seat to Doylestown, will have tolook on at a distance, was owned many years by the late Mrs. Kuhn,a daughter of the Reverend Sa
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