From the wooded lanes around the Cathedral to the hillside homes above the Pennypack to the Huntingdon Valley neighborhoods that surround the borough — we design and install custom sunrooms, screen rooms, and patio enclosures throughout Bryn Athyn and the Morelands, to the standard this community was built on.
Bryn Athyn is unlike anywhere else we serve — a borough of barely 1,400 residents on the wooded hills above the Pennypack, about thirty-five minutes from our West Conshohocken headquarters, with a hand-built Gothic cathedral at its heart and a National Historic Landmark district around it. It’s a town that was literally founded on craftsmanship, which sets a bar we’re happy to be measured against. And because the borough sits inside the wider Huntingdon Valley world of the Morelands, this page serves that whole leafy corner of eastern Montgomery County — borough and valley alike.
Bryn Athyn was founded with intention rare even among planned communities. In the 1890s, John Pitcairn — co-founder of Pittsburgh Plate Glass — led the establishment of a New Church community on these hills, and the borough was carved from Moreland Township and incorporated in 1916 under a coined name meaning, roughly, “hill of unity.” Pitcairn’s Beaux-Arts mansion Cairnwood, designed by Carrère & Hastings, anchored the community’s first generation.
Then came the building that defines the borough. Bryn Athyn Cathedral rose beginning in 1913 through a method almost medieval in spirit: resident craft guilds — stonecutters, glassmakers, metalworkers — producing the work on site, refining designs full-scale as construction went, over years of patient labor. Raymond Pitcairn, who guided that work, applied the same guild craftsmanship to Glencairn, his castle-like home beside the cathedral, now the Glencairn Museum. Together with Cairnwood they form the Bryn Athyn Historic District, a National Historic Landmark — one of the region’s great concentrations of handcraft in stone and glass.
Around that extraordinary core lives a genuinely lovely residential borough — gracious early-twentieth-century stone and arts-and-crafts homes on wooded lanes, the campuses of Bryn Athyn College and the Academy, and the Pennypack’s preserved valley threading green through it all. Beyond the borough line, the Huntingdon Valley neighborhoods of Lower Moreland and the Upper Moreland edges carry the same leafy character across a much larger map — and, as we’ll cover below, a different set of permit offices.
Bryn Athyn is about thirty-five minutes from our West Conshohocken headquarters — comfortable home-county territory. Looking beyond Bryn Athyn, we also serve Montgomery County end to end.
Whether you’re adding a four season sunroom to a stone home on a borough lane, enclosing the terrace behind a Huntingdon Valley colonial, or designing a room for a wooded hillside above the Pennypack, the right product depends on your home and how you’ll use the space. We build all four primary outdoor living products throughout Bryn Athyn and the Morelands.
Fully insulated, year-round rooms designed to the level this community expects — divided-light glass, materials and proportions that defer to serious architecture, and comfort through all four seasons. A glass room facing the Pennypack woods in January is its own quiet argument.
Light-filled rooms designed for spring through fall enjoyment — at their best on the borough’s wooded lanes and the valley’s leafy lots, where the room lives inside the trees and stretches the outdoor season at both ends.
Built around your existing patio, terrace, or porch — converting the outdoor space you already have into a genuine room, integrated with the home’s materials and roofline at its level of finish. On homes of this quality, integration is everything, and it’s the part we take most seriously. Glass, screen, or combination styles.
Insect protection plus overhead weather coverage for the months this valley lives outside — evenings under old trees, dinners above the creek — without the mosquitoes that come with the Pennypack’s beautiful, buggy woods.
Bryn Athyn projects come with considerations rooted in what makes the borough singular — a National Historic Landmark district at its core, a housing stock of serious early-twentieth-century craftsmanship, and a surrounding valley where the address and the permit office rarely match. Here’s what shapes projects here.
In a town whose cathedral was raised by resident guilds — stone cut, glass blown, metal wrought on site — workmanship is the local language, and an addition here should speak it fluently. That’s the standard we design to: materials chosen at the home’s level of finish, proportions that defer to the original architecture, and detailing that would satisfy a neighbor who knows what good joinery looks like. The practical side is straightforward — Bryn Athyn is its own borough with its own permit office, and for properties within or near the National Historic Landmark district, we confirm whether any design review applies to your specific parcel and handle it as part of the project. The bar is high here; that’s precisely why we like the work.
The borough’s gracious early-twentieth-century homes — stone, slate, and arts-and-crafts — deserve additions designed to their era. That means attachment details worked out for thick masonry construction, rooflines that follow the original pitch and defer to the home’s massing, divided-light glass in proportions the period would recognize, and trim and materials at the house’s existing level of finish. An addition to a home like this should read as a considered chapter in its story — the kind of work the original builders would have approved of — and that’s the design standard we hold ourselves to on every project in the borough.
Step outside the borough line and the map gets interesting: most of what the world calls Huntingdon Valley is Lower Moreland Township, the Upper Moreland edges carry their own addresses, and Bryn Athyn’s own 19009 covers only the borough itself. Three municipalities, three permit offices, three zoning ordinances — behind addresses that sound like one place. It matters at exactly one moment, and it’s our job to sort: our project managers confirm your actual municipality from your parcel during the consultation and design to the correct rulebook from the start, whether that’s the borough’s office or one of the Morelands’.
Whether your home is a stone single on a borough lane, an arts-and-crafts house above the Pennypack, or a colonial in Huntingdon Valley, the same factory-trained installers do the work — our own team, never subcontractors.
Half a century of structural coverage on every project. No depreciation, no fine print — a commitment that feels at home in a borough that built its cathedral to last centuries.
Our products are manufactured in Pennsylvania and engineered for the Delaware Valley’s humid summers and freeze-thaw winters — regionally made rooms for a community founded by a glassmaker, which is a standard we don’t take lightly.
Borough versus Moreland permitting, landmark-district review where it applies, era-true design on serious architecture — a Bryn Athyn project manager has to know which applies to your address and your house. Yours confirms it during the consultation and handles the right path from there.
We install across the borough’s lanes, the Huntingdon Valley neighborhoods around them, and the eastern Montgomery County communities beyond. A representative sample of the areas we serve:
The lanes around the Cathedral, Glencairn, and Cairnwood | the hillside homes above the Pennypack | the college and academy neighborhoods | the borough’s wooded roads
Huntingdon Valley (Lower Moreland Township) | the Upper Moreland edges | the neighborhoods off Huntingdon Pike and Byberry Road | the Pennypack Preserve countryside
Meadowbrook and Rydal | Abington | Willow Grove | the Southampton edge — the leafy corner where Montgomery meets Bucks
Your specific lane or neighborhood not listed? We serve essentially every residential address in Bryn Athyn and the valley around it. Submit your address through our consultation form and we’ll confirm in our first response.
Looking beyond Bryn Athyn? See our Warminster overview just across the county line, our Montgomery County overview, or our complete service area.
About thirty-five minutes — comfortable home-county territory for our crews, out the Turnpike corridor to eastern Montgomery County. Consultations, installations, and follow-up visits schedule easily; Bryn Athyn is everyday operating range for us.
Possibly — and we treat it as part of the project, not your problem. Bryn Athyn’s landmark district is the borough’s crown, and for properties within or near it we confirm exactly what design review, if any, applies to your specific parcel, then design to satisfy it from the start: proportions, materials, and detailing that defer to the neighborhood’s architecture. Frankly, we design to that standard in Bryn Athyn whether review requires it or not — the setting deserves it.
Yes — with design that takes the assignment seriously. Attachment details are worked out for thick masonry construction, rooflines follow the original pitch and defer to the home’s massing, glass is divided in proportions the period would recognize, and trim and materials are chosen at the house’s level of finish. The standard is an addition the original builders would have approved of — a considered chapter, not an interruption.
Yes, absolutely — and you’ve put your finger on the local geography. Most of Huntingdon Valley is Lower Moreland Township, with the Upper Moreland edges nearby, while Bryn Athyn’s 19009 covers only the borough — three municipalities and three permit offices behind addresses that sound like one place. We serve all of it, we confirm your actual municipality from your parcel during the consultation, and we prepare the correct submission so the map stays our job rather than your homework.
Yes — Lower and Upper Moreland, Meadowbrook, Rydal, Abington, Willow Grove, and the Southampton edge are all core eastern-Montco territory for us, along with the rest of Montgomery County and neighboring Bucks. If your life runs through the Huntingdon Valley corridor, you’re in our service area — and we confirm coverage from your exact address in our first response.
Schedule a free in-home design consultation. Our team will visit your home — whether it’s a stone single on a borough lane, an arts-and-crafts house above the Pennypack, or a colonial in Huntingdon Valley — and walk through what’s possible for your specific house, lot, and municipality. No pressure, no obligation. Response within one business day.
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