Collen Brook Farm


Collen Brook Farm, also known as Collenbrook, is a historic home and associated buildings located in Upper [Darby Township, Pennsylvania|Upper Darby Township], Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The complex includes three contributing buildings: a farmhouse, a granite spring house, and stone and frame carriage house. The house is a -story, vernacular stone residence with a Georgian plan and consisting of three sections. The oldest section was built around 1700, with additions made in 1774, and 1794.
It was the home of noted educator and 19th-century political leader George Smith. Later, Ludlow Ogden Smith, the first husband of Katharine Hepburn, resided here. It was added to the National [Register of Historic Places] in 1988. In the early 1990's, the Smith family intended to turn the house into the "Smith-Lewis Local History Museum," with support from Hepburn.
The 18th-century period farmhouse house is now owned by Upper Darby Township, operated by the Upper Darby Historical Society. and open to the public on Sunday afternoons from May through October.