Whitefield House and Gray Cottage

The Whitefield House and Gray Cottage are two historic homes on the Ephrata Tract in Nazareth, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

Construction on both buildings began in 1740, by Moravian settlers who moved to Nazareth after the failure of their mission to Native Americans and Europeans in the Savannah, Georgia area, 1735–1740.

It is named for George Whitefield (1714–1770), who hired a group of Moravians from Georgia to build the house as a school for orphaned slaves.

Only a foundation was built however, after theological disputes between Whitefield and the Moravians caused the group to purchase the town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Captain Isaac Wayne and a company of soldiers were briefly posted in Nazareth, but after the stockade was built, local settlers and the Moravian Indians kept watch.

Whitefield House and Gray Cottage in 1899.