The district, off Lincoln Drive near Wissahickon Avenue in Fairmount Park, includes six of up to forty-five original buildings.

Paper produced at the Rittenhouse mill was sold to printers in Germantown, Philadelphia, and New York City.

The Rittenhouse paper mill operated until about the 1850s, by which time the family was leasing its facilities out to other types of manufacturing.

Between the years 1890 and 1917, the site was acquired through donations and purchases by the City of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park Commission.

[5] The organization maintains offices within RittenhouseTown and offers historic tours, paper making workshops and special events.