Summers are hot and humid and winters are cold but variable. It is located 25 miles (40 km) west of Philadelphia and 17 miles (27 km) north of Wilmington, Delaware.Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 1.8 square miles (5 km 2), all land.Īs with much of southeastern Pennsylvania east of the Appalachian mountains, West Chester lies in the transition zone between the humid continental ( Köppen: Dfa) and humid subtropical ( Köppen: Cfa) climate zones, with generally more characteristics of the former than the latter. The borough straddles the Brandywine Creek and Chester Creek watersheds. West Goshen Township borders West Chester to the north, south, and east, while East Bradford Township borders West Chester to the west. Geography Gay Street in downtown West Chester Other listed buildings are the Bank of Chester County, Buckwalter Building, Butler House, Chester County Courthouse, William Everhart Buildings, Farmers and Mechanics Building, First Presbyterian Church of West Chester, New Century Clubhouse, Joseph Rothrock House, Sharples Homestead, Sharples Separator Works, Warner Theater, West Chester Boarding School for Boys, and components of West Chester State College Quadrangle Historic District. The West Chester Downtown Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. In the late 20th century, Commodore International, one of the pioneers of home computers, giving its headquarters as West Chester, was located approximately a mile northeast of the borough. In the early 20th century, an important industry was the Sharples cream separator company. and Darlington company became a major wheelworks, first for wagons and later automobiles. In the late 19th century the Hoopes, Bro. Irish revolutionary Theobald Wolfe Tone briefly lived in West Chester during his exile. In the 18th century West Chester was a center of clockmaking. Walter, one of the architects for the Capitol in Washington, D.C. In the heart of town is its courthouse, a classical revival building designed in the 1840s by Thomas U. West Chester has been the seat of government in Chester County since 1786 when the seat was moved from nearby Chester in what is now Delaware County.

The area was originally known as Turk's Head-after the inn of the same name located in what is now the center of the borough.

Main article: History of West Chester, Pennsylvania

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