Thunderbird Lodge (Rose Valley, Pennsylvania)

Thunderbird Lodge is a building of historical and architectural significance in the utopian community of Rose Valley, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

In 1904, architect William Lightfoot Price converted an existing circa-1790 stone barn into studios for the artists Charles H. and Alice Barber Stephens.

Appended to this, he designed a rambling fieldstone-and-stucco house, including a 3-story octagonal stair tower that joined the wings and served all five levels.

The fireplace that Price designed for his studio is in the silhouette of a Thunderbird, a symbol that also appears on the building's exterior in Henry Mercer’s Moravian tiles.

[8] At the edge of the property, along Rose Valley Road, is a 1926 Pennsylvania State historic marker, commemorating an important Native American trading route, the Great Minquas Path, that ran nearby.

Illustration in Harper's Magazine, 1904, by Alice Barber Stephens
1926 Pennsylvania State Historical Marker on the property. The marker commemorates the Great Minquas Path , a Native American trading route dating to the 1600s.