Historic Rittenhouse Town

✨🔥 FIREFLY HOURS IN HISTORIC GERMANTOWN 🔥✨

🧡 S'mores & Nature Crafts 🧡

Join Historic RittenhouseTown and Philly Free Range for s'mores and nature crafts! 🌿🍡 Roast mallows over our open hearth 🔥 and dive into a variety of interactive natural crafting activities:

🪨 "Smash a Stone" pigment paint
🌸 Tie-dye with pokeweed ink
🍁 String a garland of fall leaves
🍃 Make a RittenhouseTown Magnolia leaf name tag

Choose one, or choose 'em all! 😄

📅 Aug 12, 13, 14
🕔 5:00pm – 7:00pm
📍 Historic RittenhouseTown, 208 Lincoln Drive

Join us Wednesday-Sunday for a fun week of merriment and drinks at our parks on tap!

Join us tomorrow for the First Paper Maker in America: 1690
Firstival: Saturday, June 27, 2026 | 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Long before Wi-Fi and word processors, there was paper and it all started at Rittenhouse Town. Discover the handmade beginnings of America’s paper trail and the mill that made it happen.

June Firsts are sponsored by WURD and the Pennsylvania Lottery.

The Philadelphia Historic District is celebrating 52 Weeks of Firsts that all happened right here in Philly. From the first zoo to the first slinky, every week will bring a new story, Saturday Firstival, and a giant #1 sculpture designed by , mapping out the Firsts and providing photo contest fun.

Learn more about at 52firstsphilly.com


Located at Historic RittenhouseTown 208 Lincoln Drive Philadelphia PA 19144

Parking is limited, please plan accordingly, event is rain or shine!

Free tours and open house today as part of Wawa Welcome America's free tour day!

Visit us from 12n-4p today at 208 Lincoln drive Philadelphia PA 19144.

Craving something delicious? Come out to Historic RittenhouseTown today from 1p – 6p PM and enjoy hearth-cooked personal pizzas made fresh and fired to perfection!

✨ Handcrafted personal pizzas
🔥 Cooked in a traditional hearth oven
🏛️ Beautiful historic setting
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Fun for family and friends

There’s nothing quite like the smell of fresh pizza baking over a hot hearth while exploring one of Philadelphia’s most unique historic treasures.

Don't forget the Historic Rittenhouse Town BBQ is today! Day 7 of hearth week has the grounds are open for fun, games relaxation and food! Come spend the afternoon with us. Everything is pay what you can/by donation. 12n-4p

208 Lincoln drive Philadelphia PA 19144

Due to unexpected generous support your event is going to be free/pay what you can donation tonight! While it may be last minute stop by the bakehouse between 6-8 for some tastings of colonial recipes!

Tastings and Traditions in the Hearth

Join us on Friday, May 29 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM for a special evening of historic foodways and culinary tradition with Cooking from the English Household Receipts of the Middle Colonies Cookbook.

We hope to see you there 😀

🔥 FREE TO ALL HEARTH WEEK KICK-OFF PARTY STARTS TOMORROW! 12N-4P🔥

Join us May 24–31 for a week filled with historic hearth cooking, come and experience history through food, fire, and community!

Check out what each date offers at the link below or on our website!

🎟️ Tickets & full schedule: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/hearth-week

Www.RittenhouseTown.org

This is a co-hosted event with Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley. All events will be held at 208 Lincoln Drive, Philadelphia PA, 19144.