Overview

Whitehurst was originally constructed in 1822, as a modest home for the Quaker founder of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, Josiah White. After becoming the second manager, Edwin Douglas, doubled the square footage of the house by adding a parlor and a wrap-around porch. The third manager, John Leisenring, renovated the house in Italianate styling similar to the Asa Packer Mansion. In 1885, the house was dismantled and rebuilt into three attached dwellings at its current location on the east side of the Lehigh River. One of these dwellings was completely renovated in 2004 into a five bedroom guest house with individual climate control and private baths (three rooms with spas.) Common areas are decorated with period furniture and displayed with artifacts and images memorializing the lives of the three managers. Most rooms have a private porch and spectacular views of the town and surrounding mountains.