[1] This house dates back to roughly 1722, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay by three-bay, fieldstone dwelling that was designed in the Georgian style.

It has a gable roof, a two-story rear kitchen wing, and a sun porch, and was restored during the late-1930s.

During the American Revolution, this house served as headquarters for Colonel Clement Biddle, in late-1777 and early-1778, during the encampment at Valley Forge.

At that time, a committee of congress met at Moore Hall for three months and there decided that General George Washington should serve as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the house served as the summer home for Pennsylvania Governor Samuel W.