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Visit Bishop White House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

His home at 309 Walnut Street in Philadelphia is today part of Independence National Historical Park. It is notable, in part, as one of the first houses to have an indoor "necessary," at a time when most privies were built outside of houses. The prominent physician Benjamin Rush lived next door. A second Bishop White House is located on Old Mill Lane, in the Historic District in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania. Bishop White sent his family to this house in 1793, during the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. Though his family lived there and he visited the house, White generally remained in Philadelphia.
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