Nutting Hall is a historic home located at 205 South Tulpehocken Street in the Borough of Pine Grove, in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Erected between 1823 and 1825 for Christian Lay who had, as a boy, met and come to know American President George Washington, it was built by Peter Filbert, a pioneering industrialist who was involved in Pine Grove's founding. Currently owned by Margery Wheeler Mattox, who purchased it after it had been converted to rental apartments by the former owner, it was restored over a period of 25 years by Mattox before being placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 23, 1980. The home still retains its original wood siding. Architectural features Built between 1823 and 1825, Nutting Hall is a -story, five bay wide frame dwelling, with a -story rear ell and gable roof. Measuring 40 feet by 60 feet, it sits on a stone foundation on its lot at 205 South Tulpehocken Street in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania. History A historic home which was awarded National Register status in 1980, Nutting Hall is tied to both the late 18th century mass emigration of German Palatines to the American Colonies and to George Washington, the first President of the United States through its association with the Ley family, whose patriarch, Christopher Ley (1695-1745), came to America from the German Palatinate in 1732. Ley, who would ultimately become the grandfather of Nutting Hall's first owner (Christian Ley, Sr.), began his family with wife Barbara in what is now Myerstown, Pennsylvania. Among their nine children was son Michael Ley (1739-1824), who built Myerstown's historic Tulpehocken Manor Plantation, where Washington stayed during three visits to Lebanon County between 1777 and 1794. It was Michael Ley's son, Christian Ley (1762-1831), who went on to build what would eventually become "Nutting Hall," and to also serve in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1799 to 1802 and then, for one year, in the Pennsylvania Senate. Thirty-two years old at the time that Washington made his final visit to Tulpehocken Manor, Christian Ley was representing Lebanon and Dauphin Counties in the Pennsylvania House during this time. He then relocated to Pine Grove in Schuylkill County, where he became one of that county's prominent businessmen due to his buying and selling of land. It was during this period that Christian Ley contracted with Peter Filbert to erect a new residence for his wife,